I have been teaching at Sarah Lawrence College for almost 15 years now. Despite its many problems, one of the College’s greatest assets is its progressive education. Regrettably, this pedagogical tool ...

Progressive education last week was compared, by one of its high priests, to Christianity. Burton Philander Fowler, veteran progressive educator and Presbyterian, wrote in the New York Times that the ...

At the Carnegie Foundation on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, 20 Progressive Educators gathered last week to draft a momentous report. It was to tell the results of the Progressive Education Association’s ...

When I began the first grade in 1942, my mother noticed that I was slow to learn to read and arranged a meeting with my teacher. She was given a lecture on how reading was to be taught in school.

The theory of progressive education, which became dominate in schools and universities in the mid-twentieth century, revolutionized the American educational system. Subjects like literature, ...

As regular readers of this blog know, I’m an advocate for Self-Directed Education. My research and that of others convince me that Self-Directed Education works, is eminently practical, and is far ...

As I watch so many colleagues suddenly find themselves working in states where progressive teaching is no longer welcome and where courses that address issues of race, gender, class, power and ...

For decades now, education policy debates have focused “progressive education” vs. “back to basics.” You can hear echoes in current efforts to figure out what happened to Maine schools during the ...

The founder of progressive education was John Dewey, a native of Burlington, Vermont (1859-1952), and a professor of education at the University of Vermont for much of his career. He was considered a ...

At the heart of Greenfield Chennai International School lies an unwavering focus on academic achievement supported by ...