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Abstract: Educational policy has the essential meaning for the development of any country and at the same time it affects the interests and has an impact on the most part of the modern society. In that regard, the current educational system and the process of its modernization arouse continued disputes and debates of all sectors of the community. Under this article we reviewed American mass-media publications reflecting the views of journalists, teaching staff and general public on the American educational system, its main figures and education reform process in 2012-2017. The theoretical part of the article focuses on the relations between the concepts of «mass media discourse», «mass media» and «mass communication» and characteristic features of media-discourse. In the practical part of the article we provided the survey of the most discussed target-spheres of estimation of the American education reform and educational policy in the US mass media. The research materials are mass media publications (articles, requests, interviews, etc.) devoted to the education reform and its main figures. The discourse-analysis has enabled us to distinguish the following target-spheres of estimation: decline of educational level, teacher attrition, effectiveness of current educational programs and methods of result assessment, educational gap between people from different backgrounds, limited diversity of programs for gifted children, crime and violence at school and parental involvement in educational process. The provided materials of this research may be useful to compare educational system problems and educational policy of different countries.