Twenty years ago Progressive Education was a tiny and, in many eyes, a crackpot movement quarantined in a handful of private schools. Today it covers much more territory. Now predominantly a ...

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 ...

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 ...

State Representative and candidate for House District 45, Deanne Mazzochi, spoke in suburban Glen Ellyn on Wednesday morning about her pledge to rescind “sensitive” curriculum standards in public ...

In what respects, precisely, did the curriculum at U.E.S. differ from that of other schools, at which attendance is so widely and cordially disliked? This question of course opened up the whole ...

IN the winter of 1923, a wealthy lady, and a friend, took me to see the Lincoln School in New York. All her four children were in it, and the school’s progressive achievements were her pride and joy.

As a part of their progressive education, students who used Montessori’s binomial cubes in earlier grades at Council Oak Montessori School for puzzles rediscover the cubes in the upper levels for more ...

What happens when a nationally mandated, play-based early years curriculum meets the realities of schools in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities? The Welsh Foundation Phase (FP) offers ...

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 ...

Parents backed by a group pressing for more rigorous programs and selective admissions practices captured a significant foothold in this year’s New York City education council elections, fueling the ...