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 ...

How Populism Turned the Road to Housing Act into the Road to Nowhere The Long Afterlife of Hiss–Chambers Smears Senate Republicans Should Not Unilaterally Disarm by Abandoning the Filibuster Taking ...

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 ...

Researchers Forest Romm and Kevin Waldman just published a devastating portrait of undergraduate life at Northwestern University and the University of Michigan, “Performative virtue-signaling has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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