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 ...

Parents researching K-12 schools for their children may come across the term “progressive education.” While schools may vary in how they define this approach, the nonprofit Progressive Education ...

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 ...

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 ...

Excellence in most any interesting or worthy human undertaking requires years of discipline and training. To perform at the ...

Teachers are frequently reminded during their careers to "meet the students where they are." It's a common-sense idea: there are things students know and can do today, and other things they should be ...

In 2008 I supported Obama’s primary bid, but I wrote at the time that Hillary Clinton’s statement on education was more progressive and creative than Obama’s. Unfortunately, as president, Obama has ...

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 ...

Judge on Comey Disqualification Motion Orders Prosecutor to Produce Grand Jury Proceedings She Withheld ‘Affordability’ Will Be Everything in 2026 Audio By Carbonatix Hostility to private education is ...

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 ...

Two renowned Canadian educators have a new title that introduces a progressive model for supporting neurodivergent learners.

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.