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	Progressive Education as It Has Progressed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This, in itself, exemplifies the role that Dewey believes progressive education should take in our society: to encourage students to want to learn and to teach them to be an active members of society.
		Generally speaking, progressive education addresses the issue of how subjects and areas of knowledge are to be shared.
		Another thing that Greene discusses is the need for progressive education to address the “dreary realities of contemporary life – the violation of children, the drug epidemic, the spread of AIDS, homelessness, the erosion of services, the racism, the homophobia, the privatism, the lack of care (Corcoran, 1993, p.
	www.umm.maine.edu:300 /Education/students/CurriculumDesign/McGovern.htm (3377 words)

	Audrey Thompson - What to Do While Waiting for the Revolution: Political Pragmatism and Performance Pedagogy
		Insofar as progressive education is modelled on liberal education, it concentrates on acquainting students with important arguments that take up power relations as part of the overall analysis offered in a course.
		Progressive education modelled on liberal education may risk accommodation to privilege by accepting the terms of access to power (as with Delpit); by presenting counterarguments to mainstream arguments deemed worthy of refutation (as in the example Hoagland offers); or even by invoking disciplinary standards such as objectivity, balance, or acquaintance with the canon.
		Though progressive teachers are concerned to move students away from oppressive beliefs and commitments, the appeal to authenticity in student-centered education implicitly acknowledges a kind of parallelism in divergent forms of experience.
	www.ed.uiuc.edu /EPS/PES-Yearbook/97_docs/thompson.html (4288 words)

	Journal of Technology Education - Volume 3, Number 2
		Many of the Progressives believed that, due to school practices, schools and society were caught in a dualistic relationship which separated the school from mainstream society and created an isolation of the schools.
		Furthermore, the Progressives argued that the artificial environment of the schools was miseducative in that the youth of the country were not prepared to see and understand the values and issues which would confront them as they became adults (Dewey and Childs, 1933).
		Vandenberg (1971), in a phenomenological analysis, views the reform efforts of the twentieth century as a Hegelian dialectic in which social reconstruction was an alternative view promulgated as a result of child- centered beliefs and was recombined with life-adjustment ideas in the post World War II period.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/JTE/v3n2/html/zuga.html (3601 words)

	Reforming Education - The World & I Online Magazine
		The book traces the rise of progressive education from the ideas of John Dewey to its modern reincarnation in the form of "constructivism"--the belief that children construct their own knowledge.
		Progressives therefore denounced subject-centered schooling as authoritarian and "fascistic," and they sought to make schools where children would "participate in the work, play, and social life of the community." In other words, they sought to turn the schools into community centers that would prepare children for a life of work and collective living.
		Progressive educators are deliberately and successfully shrinking the conceptual faculties of our children to a primitive state of consciousness.
	www.worldandi.com /public/2001/march/thomprev.html (2326 words)

	Current Issues in Education: Volume 4 Number 7
		As an educator I see this book as a welcome aid for constructing explanations about my classroom practices to many audiences; this is particularly important in today's climate where pedagogical responsibilities are being legislated away from classroom teachers.
		The political verve of progressive education is not without its risks, and Revisiting a Progressive Pedagogy: The Developmental Interaction Approach does not shy away from that danger.
		Only with a concerted effort made by many educators who believe in children and their developmental needs will we ever be able to truly demystify and legitimize progressive practices in education.
	cie.asu.edu /volume4/number7 (1436 words)

	A Brief Overview of Progressive Education
		Although there are numerous differences of style and emphasis among progressive educators, they share the conviction that democracy means active participation by all citizens in social, political and economic decisions that will affect their lives.
		These elements of progressive education have been termed "child-centered" and "social reconstructionist" approaches, and while in extreme forms they have sometimes been separated, in the thought of John Dewey and other major theorists they are seen as being necessarily related to each other.
		Today, scholars, educators and activists are rediscovering Dewey's work and exploring its relevance to a "postmodern" age, an age of global capitalism and breathtaking cultural change, and an age in which the ecological health of the planet itself is seriously threatened.
	www.uvm.edu /~dewey/articles/proged.html (888 words)

	EDFD 5323: Pulliam and Van Patten (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It should be remembered that while the progressive movement had great influence on public elementary schools and colleges of education, the effect on secondary schools was slight and practically nonexistent on the academic disciplines in the universities.
		Competency Based Teacher Education, commonly referred to as competency based or performance based teacher education, is now used in many university-based colleges of education, CBTE is directed toward the development of specific skills or categories of behavior which have a direct connection to meaningful and observable learning on the part of the student.
		Graduate courses in education for teachers are popular because many schools require teachers to obtain a master's degree within a few years from the time of employment, and salary increases are often tied to the acquisition of graduate credit hours or advanced degrees.
	plsc.uark.edu /ritter/edfd5683pulliam3.html (6656 words)

	TCU School of Education Discussion Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The scholar reserves some of her harshest critiques for progressive educators: a diverse group of theorists and practitioners with numerous, sometimes incompatible aims, who tried to remake the schools to better reflect the needs of society, on the one hand, and the innate nature of children, on the other.
		The book wasn't so much a focus on progressive education, initially, but on why we have the recurring problem of low expectations in our schools, why we seem to have these curriculum battles again and again, and so very often it seems to be the same battle.
		These were born out of the progressive movement and, in their own time, those who advocated them called them progressive reforms and thought of themselves as progressive reformers.
	www2.tcu.edu /depts/sed2/discuss/messages/4654/4712.html?1110135829 (3035 words)

	City Journal Summer 2004 \| In Defense of Memorization by Michael Knox Beran
		As educators have known for centuries, these exercises deliver unique cognitive benefits, benefits that are of special importance for kids who come from homes where books are scarce and the level of literacy low.
		For progressive educators, to require students to recite “Daffodils” or memorize the Gettysburg Address is a relic of a “drill and kill” culture that inhibits the development of the self and is the educational equivalent of a chain gang.
		If anything, it is the progressive liturgies—with their “diversity” drills and cult of self-esteem—that embody a narrow and intolerant ideology, one that imprisons kids in the banal clichés of the present and puts much of the past off limits, as though the moral and spiritual inheritance of Western civilization were somehow taboo.
	www.city-journal.org /html/14_3_defense_memorization.html (2698 words)

	History of Education: Selected Moments
		Progressive educators believed that a new education program, based on the development of cooperative social skills, critical thinking and democratic behaviors, could play a pivotal role in transforming a society of greed, individualism, waste and corruption for one based on compassion, humanism and equality (Rippa 1997).
		In those books, Dewey argued that education was the fundamental method of social progress and reform, and that all reforms that rested only upon the law of the fear of punishment were transitory and futile.
		Among them were those who felt that education needed a foundation of basic skills and more discipline, and those who believed that progressive education was corrupting the minds of youth.
	fcis.oise.utoronto.ca /~daniel_schugurensky/assignment1/1919pea.html (857 words)

	The Educators Manifesto
		Educators might argue that the global society under construction in our extended present is not proving to be a global consumer society in which the manipulation and satisfaction of wants is the main venture of mankind.
		Education is what people do, individually and through groups, to develop the shared capacity at the disposal of their progeny for pursuing meaningful well-being through their future lives.
		Educators laid the classroom out to facilitate the recitation, which they structured around the lesson, the basic unit in a textbook, which students the world around prepare according to their respective subjects and grades.
	www.ime.usp.br /~robetock/renewing1table.htm (17938 words)

	Progressive Education - John Dewey's Failing Remnants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		experiences of progressive education are based upon the background of the children locally, it is necessary for progressive educators to possess this knowledge.
		progressive education was the freedom of movement because in 1938 the
		progressive education schools were already being criticized for lack of control.
	www.havenforlearning.com /2k2.htm (2690 words)

	The School In Rose Valley - From the FREEP
		Many staff members have commented on how connected they feel to each other, how reinvigorated they are about progressive practices, and how moved they are to be part of a school that made such a commitment to educators and children.
		It is clear that the Symposium’s impact will be felt well beyond our campus.We clearly helped reenergize a network of progressive educators who will carry their Symposium experience forward as they return to their schools.
		Educators from all over the country are talking about our little school and what a BIG inspiration we provided.
	www.theschoolinrosevalley.org /fromfreep041031.asp (542 words)

	The Legacy of Progressive Education
		The surprise for me was that progressive education, often blamed for low academic standards in the United States, had managed to land in Japan and take a pro-intellectual bounce.
		Ravitch describes the various philosophies and movements that have shaped U.S. education in the 20th century, with particular attention given to progressive education.
		She finds good elements in some of the progressive reforms and notes that the progressive educators never enjoyed absolute hegemony.
	speakout.com /activism/opinions/2971-1.html (1008 words)

	[cssn] Oakland's Looking for Progressive Educators (fwd) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Before moving to the Bay Area to take the job of Director for Alternative Education at the Oakland Unified School District, Mara did path-breaking work as principal at Satellite H.S. in the South Bronx.
		We are working to reform and restructure our small alternative secondary schools as well as create many more educational options for all our urban students.
		We are looking for energetic, creative, and highly skilled urban educators who can begin work in September 2002 in our small alternative secondary schools.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/cssn/cssn-list/2002/05/00064.html (333 words)

	Have Educators Become Emasculators? -- America's Future -- Week of February 28, 1999
		By stifling natural tendencies, progressive education has deprived young men of academic achievement, consigning them to lives of failure and frustration.
		Janet Daly of the London Daily Telegraph contends that "the epidemic of underachievement among boys in British state schools" is the predictable consequence of progressive education policies introduced 30 years ago.
		Daly argues that progressive education has taken a greater toll on boys, because they "temperamentally depended much more than girls on the principles of traditional education: discipline, structure, and com-petition." She warns that boys deprived of academic achievement are "dropping out in alarming numbers into a nihilistic, outlaw street culture.
	www.americasfuture.net /1999/feb99/99-0228c.html (468 words)

	SUNY Press :: Emancipatory Promise of Charter Schools, The (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This book opens up a critical conversation among progressive educators of various generations, races, perspectives, and social locations concerning one specific school reform initiative—charter schools.
		The editors argue that charter schools are playing a powerful role in reviving participation in public education, expanding opportunities for progressive methods in public school classrooms, and generating new energy for community-based, community-controlled school initiatives.
		Charter schools are by no means a panacea for the problems that beset public education, but this collection of essays shows why they represent a legitimate strategy for reviving this vital American institution.
	www.sunypress.edu /details.asp?id=61010 (539 words)

	AlterEd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		An example of a progressive high school of the era was the Dalton Plan.
		She believed that children mature at different rates and that this should be the basis of the then current educational system (Pulliam, 1987).
		Alternative education, like the struggling student, is not a new concept though its forms continue to change.
	www.parkway.k12.pa.us /AltEd.htm (1251 words)

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		While the article presents the case that true education and learning is suffering as a result of the “progressive education” techniques, our concern is that it is deleterious to any theological study or commitment.
		The Lutheran Educators Conference was a gathering of LCMS educators from all over the western half of the United States and was officially sponsored by the LCMS church.
		Indeed, the acknowledged father of progressive education was Jean Jacques Rousseau, the humanist philosopher who believed the purpose of education was not to educate, but rather to find happiness and allow children to be creative.
	www.concordtx.org /anatomy.htm (5127 words)

	Educators For Progressive Instructional Change (EPIC) - Meetup.com
		Educators For Progressive Instructional Change (EPIC) November Meetup
		New Event: Educators For Progressive Instructional Change (EPIC) November Meetup
		Past Event: Educators For Progressive Instructional Change (EPIC) August Meetup
	schoolreform.meetup.com /9 (485 words)

	The School In Rose Valley - From the FREEP - Symposium Springs Back Into Action
		At the Spring Conference, SRV teachers and administrators will have the opportunity to share ideas with other progressive educators, carefully consider their definitions of progressive ed, and create a plan of action for making a "progressive" change.
		Duckworth, a former student and translator of Jean Piaget, is a former elementary school teacher and has worked in curriculum development, teacher education, and program evaluation in the United States, Switzerland, Africa, and her native Canada.
		Join us on April 5, 6, and 7 to broaden your understanding of progressive education and the significance of the symposium to our teachers, to our school, and to progressive educators nationwide.
	www.theschoolinrosevalley.org /fromfreep050421.asp (538 words)

	On the picket line
		A central message of the rallies was a demand to cut funding for the LAUSD’s notorious "mini-districts"--11 completely unnecessary district offices packed with administrators and consultants who dream up new directives that impose longer working hours, more paperwork and less academic freedom on classroom teachers.
		The union also used the rallies to make a big push for several ballot measures that are designed to wring a little extra money from state coffers for education.
		Fortunately, Progressive Educators for Action (PEAC), a reform group within UTLA, mobilized for these rallies.
	www.socialistworker.org /2004-1/488/488_11_LaborBrief.shtml (344 words)

	Welcome to Stager.org!
		The materials were designed to be informative useful and inspiring.
		Please consider having me address your conference audience or work with your educational institution.
		I have twenty-one years of global experience spanning a variety of educational disciplines from preschool through the doctoral level of schooling.
	www.stager.org (118 words)

	summit2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Join 80 to 120 Vermont educators, policy makers, parents, students and activists and invited out-of-state guests for one and a half days of dialogue and creative expression around renewing the democratic aims of education.
		“Education is what happens to the other person, not what comes out of the mouth of the educator.
		You have to posit trust in the learner If you believe in democracy, which I do, you have to believe that people have the capacity within themselves to develop the ability to govern themselves.
	www.uvm.edu /~dewey/conferences/summit2001.htm (386 words)

	marginX.com - teacher resources, reviews, and networking, for critical educators teachers students for social justice ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The e-archive project - an evolving record of progressive educators.
		The Message Board - join the discussion: education, politics, culture, whatevers.
		Gallery of quotes - some on education, some not.
	www.marginx.com (236 words)

	Gary Stager News
		Gary Stager has created a new tool for educational leaders trying to gather support for successful 1:1 computer implementation.
		Learn how to podcast and the understand the educational rationale for it here.
		The International Society for Technology in Education invited Gary to write a column for their newspaper, The Daily Leader, distributed at the 2004 National Educational Computing Conference in New Orleans.
	www.stager.org /news.html (326 words)

	Goddard College \| July Institute for Progressive Educators Registration
		REGISTRATION -July Institute for Progressive Educators, July 19 -July 23, 2005
		Participants who enroll in Goddard's BA or MA degree program for the fall semester are eligible to earn 15 or 12 semester credits.
		Our full time program consists of the intensive eight-day residency plus independent study with facilitation of a faculty advisor.
	www.goddard.edu /academic/edinstap.html (236 words)

	Cafe Progressive: alternative education, politics, culture and resources
		An extensive guide to progressive education, politics, independent media, gender & sexuality, race & racism, world cultures, activism, etc.
		Let your progressive voice be heard: e-campaigns, forums, mailing list, advertising, etc.
		is a progressive launchpad and a thriving independent and alternative community of progressive resources and ideas for teachers and educators, political activists, multicultural students and citizens.
	www.cafeprogressive.com (133 words)

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