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.

The New Republic’s ‘American Fascism’ issue reveals, among other things, the depth of the rot in elite higher education. The June issue of the New Republic is dedicated to “American Fascism,” the ...

FOR a number of years, I enjoyed a reputation among my friends as a stalwart conservative. But of late, on repeated occasions, I find myself abruptly the target of the pitying glances accorded ...

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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 ...

At the Carnegie Foundation on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, 20 Progressive Educators gathered last week to draft a momentous report. It was to tell the results of the Progressive Education Association’s ...

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 ...