Does formal education break down a school girl’s maternal instinct? Helen Parkhurst, head of Manhattan’s flourishing Dalton School, thinks it does. She believes a girl’s interest in babies ...

Dalton founder Helen Parkhurst—along with Elizabeth Irwin at Little Red School House, Caroline Pratt at City and Country, and Lucy Sprague Mitchell at Bank Street—took her cues from ...

Author, Aim. The author of the plan is Miss Helen Parkhurst, Director of the Children’s University School of New York. Its aim is to extend to pupils in secondary departments the opportunities ...

The idea that no two students learn in exactly the same way is nothing new. Even back in the 1800s, Helen Parkhurst was advocating for an educational system that took the personalized needs of the ...