The article analyzes the impact of educational reforms on the quality of the educational outcomes. The prerequisites for increase in efficiency of education system are provided, the visual data, which prove correlation of the learning outcomes and financing of education in the EU countries, teachers’ salary and child‘s well-being. The outcomes of the educational reform and international studies revealed a number of failures and mistakes of the reform. Therefore, this article analyzes the education reform goals and experience accumulated in Lithuania comparing it with the situation in the world.