The article presents the results of a survey of teachers in five regions of the Russian Federation, conducted as part of a study of the realities and prospects of civic-patriotic education in school. It is obvious that the professional competence of teachers in the methods and means of such education, as well as their own ideological position regarding citizenship and patriotism, are the most important factors in the success of educational influences and the formation of moral ideas of modern schoolchildren.

The article discusses the advantages of systematic approach to studying the problems of Russian education system development in the context of new reality formation. According to the authors the architecture of the upcoming model of the Russian education system should be guided by the best traditions in the study area of the Soviet education system and the experience of the educational process, which has been accumulated during the use of Bologna model.