You’ve got to hand it to Michelle Rhee: She succeeded in building a movement around reforming the education system based on standardized tests. While those of us who are proponents of progressive ...

It began with The Putney School in the 1930s, one of the earliest American schools built around progressive ideals: ...

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.

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 ...

Americans of all ideologies want kids to have an opportunity for a great education. But the national education debate is often more turf war than policy discussion. Conventional public schools are ...

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 ...

What was billed as an "Inside Informal" night last month gave Upper Arlington parents a chance to learn about the style of teaching called Informal Progressive that is offered at Wickliffe Progressive ...

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.

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 ...

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.