Why revisit John Dewey’s philosophy on education and democracy now? I think it is time to revisit Dewey’s philosophy about the value of field trips, classroom experiments, music instruction and ...

RALEIGH — Just about everyone has an opinion about how to improve education, and it’s usually an opinion passionately held and forcefully argued. It’s not hard to see why. After all, schools are the ...

Dewey has been to our age what Aristotle was to the later Middle Ages, not a philosopher, but the philosopher, added historian Hilda Neatby. The philosopher began his education in Burlington public ...

Phi Delta Kappan, a professional magazine for educators, features articles on education practice, research, policy, issues, and trends. Frequent topics include school improvement, leadership, ...

Thirty years of “life adjustment” by the followers of Progressive Educator John Dewey have left U.S. education over adjusted, ill-equipped to quicken intellectual life. This week, in “The Deeper ...

IN RECENT years our public schools have been criticized so frequently and in so many places that their defenders may be justified in believing that, in part at least, these criticisms are a concerted, ...

Based on original sources, this book tells the full story of the life and times of the eminent American philosopher, pragmatist, education reformer, and man of letters, John Dewey. During his lifetime ...

This article is adapted from Paul Kengor’s book Dupes: How America's Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century. Google the phrase “founding father of public education,” and you’ll likely ...

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