Progressive education does not mean that there are no rules or guidelines. It does not mean that students are uniformly affirmed when they are making factually inaccurate statements. It is true ...

Progressive education is rooted in the ideas of early ... They also need to have a lot of meaning in the work,” he says. Students attain this level of ownership in their learning by engaging ...

Progressive education in action ... in prekindergarten have shown significant gains in reading and mathematics. Mean reading scores for three-year participants were more than 25 percent higher ...

Calculus, chemistry and composition have more practical uses, but the meaning of humanity is worth some classroom discussion. I have found no precise data on the extent of progressive education in ...

I’ve found that when I speak or write about Self-Directed Education some people mistakenly believe that I’m speaking or writing about progressive education. Progressive education has many ...

After Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans made parents a big promise: they could choose their child's public school. But what were they choosing from?

Indeed, the dialogue at the meeting made clear the term “education reform” has become a pejorative in the progressive community. Earlier this year I published a post about how the Democratic ...

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 ...