While schools may vary in how they define this approach, the nonprofit Progressive Education Network says progressive schools ...

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 ...

FOR a number of years, I enjoyed a reputation among my friends as a stalwart conservative. But of late, on repeated occasions, I find myself abruptly the target of the pitying glances accorded ...

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 ...

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.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Teachers are frequently reminded during their careers to "meet the ...

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

Ever since Arthur Bestor and Rudolf Flesch wrote their famous attacks on progressive education in the early 1950s, blasting this form of education has been a blood sport for certain education critics.

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 ...

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.