Abstract
The article addresses the goals of secondary school reform in the First Czechoslovak Republic. Attention is drawn to two main issues of school reform - the social and pedagogical problems of the middle school reform discussion.
The study shows that the basic school reform demand - the establishment of the so-called unified middle school (comprehensive school) - was not carried through in both the political and professional communities. The result was only the convergence of the curricula of respective types of middle schools.
In the second part, the article deals with the middle school reform plans after 1929, when school reform life was strongly revived. It is analysed that after 1929 the only enforceable compromise of the reform phase was a strong convergence of the curricula of different types of secondary schools in the first two years of lower secondary school.