Problem solution of coordination and consistency of scientific research in the field of education is highly correlated to actualization of research areas. Common practice of science and routine educational process interaction hardly reflects not only modern education needs but developing modern society, and often appears to be continuation of directions and subjects of previous century in its contents.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the results of all-Russian testing works on biology in the 5th grade, in particular, the analysis of the participation of students in the Novosibirsk region. Decrease in the level of performance when passing from the fourth grade (the World around) to the fifth (Biology) both in Russia and in the region, confirms this fact, obtained in other studies. The article considers the factors that influence the results. It highlights the tasks that proved to be difficult for students in the Novosibirsk region, compared with students in Russia.

The article poses the problem of organizational and substantial updating of the system of additional professional education of teachers, the creation of competence models on the basis of educational technologies of the activity type.

The article deals with the problem of psychological and pedagogical support of adolescents who are brought up in substitute families. The specificity of the adolescent period and the conditions of deprivation create special difficulties in adapting these children to a substitute family.

In the article the author considers the problem of ensuring child safety through the creation and development of a safe environment as the main characteristics of society.