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 ...
The pervading and unrelenting tension in American pedagogy for the last one hundred-plus years essentially has come down to ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Nathan Harden is the editor of RealClearEducation. One factor that pushed Walz to the top of Harris’ list, despite the strategic advantages of choosing a swing-state governor like Shapiro, stands out: ...