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 ...

Smarick, A. (2025). “ The Progressive School Reform Voices Crying in the Wilderness: Profiles of the courageous few on the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Enduring Lessons of William F. Buckley Jr. England’s NHS Memory-Holes Its Defense of Incest The New Republic’s ‘American Fascism’ issue reveals, among other things, the depth of the rot in elite ...

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 ...

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 ...