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.

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 ...

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 ...

It began with The Putney School in the 1930s, one of the earliest American schools built around progressive ideals: experiential learning, farm-based education, democratic governance and a belief in ...

For the past four years, I have been a volunteer tutor in grades 1-4 of a K-5 public elementary school in New York City’s Community School District 2. As in countless other urban schools nationwide, ...

In the past few months, there have been countless stories of K–12 schools succumbing to and endorsing the excesses of progressive ideology — teachers required to make public anti-racism statements, ...

Americans of all ideologies want kids to have an opportunity for a great education. But the national education debate is often more turf war than policy discussion. Conventional public schools are ...

North American elementary and secondary schools are based on premises “that have been wrong from the beginning and haven’t become any less wrong for a century’s reiteration.” So argues Kieran Egan, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is a chapter that appears in the recently released book, “Against the Corporate Media: Forty-two Ways the Press Hates You.” Postmodern progressivism occupies the commanding heights of ...