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unusual facts about progressive education


Getting it Wrong from the Beginning

Getting it Wrong from the Beginning: Our Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget is a 2002 book by Kieran Egan criticizing the traditional progressivist foundations of modern education in the Western World.


Erika Mann

The partially mischievous pranks that she undertook in the so-called “Herzogpark-Bande” with Klaus and befriended neighborhood children prompted her parents to send her and her brother Klaus to a progressive residential school, the Bergschule Hochwaldhausen, which was located in Vogelsberg in Oberhessen.

Hermann Lietz

Hermann Lietz (28 April 1868, Dumgenevitz auf Rügen – 12 June 1919, Haubinda) was a German educational progressive and theologian who founded the German Landerziehungsheime für Jungen (country boarding schools).

St Christopher School, Letchworth

Established in 1915 shortly after Ebenezer Howard founded Letchworth Garden City, the school is a long-time proponent of progressive education and was to be 'where members of different faiths shall be encouraged to mix together and in this way to learn a respect and tolerance for beliefs other than their own'.


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Francis Wayland Parker

In addition to the schools in Illinois and California, the Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School was founded in Massachusetts in 1995, in honor of Parker's contributions to the field of progressive education.

John Dewey called him the "father of progressive education."

Shalhevet High School

D., and Steve Bailey, Ph.D., the school's founding headmaster, Shalhevet developed a modified version of the Kohlberg-Gilligan "Just Community" template, which it hoped would become a national model for progressive education in an Orthodox Jewish setting.

Thomas Hopkins

L. Thomas Hopkins (1889–1982), American progressive education theorist

Winnetka School District 36

Washburne was a product of a Chicago elementary school founded by Francis Parker, who together with John Dewey were early practitioners of progressive education.