John Dewey

There's Danger in Playing Chess with Politics

Leslie Reece Schichtel | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Dialogue, Elections 2012, Debate, Democracy, John Dewey, Conservatives, Liberals, 2012 Election, Politics News
Leslie Reece Schichtel

The object of a game of chess is to vanquish one's opponent. To do so, both players strategize each piece's trajectory to eventually lock the opponent...

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A School Grows in Brooklyn

Tom Allon | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Education, New American Academy, John Dewey, Education Reform, Shimon Waronker, Education News
Tom Allon

I have just witnessed the future of public education in America and I am so excited that my head is brimming with optimism.

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Educating the Whole Child

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Education, Education Reform, Children's Health, Healthclass2.0, John Dewey, Let's Move, Whole Child, Whole Child Education, Education News
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

Somehow, the belief that better physical, emotional, and spiritual health generates happier, more productive citizens is quickly becoming accepted as a fact in our culture, yet education has largely been moving in the opposite direction.

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Why Education?

Sean Slade | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Public Schools, Music Standardized Testing, Mental Health, Social Emotional Learning, Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Jr., Science, John Dewey, School, School Improvement, Cognitive, Education, Art, Physical Health, Math, Common Core, Health, Whole Child, Education Reform, Pe, Education News
Sean Slade

Why do we have education? What is the rationale behind schooling? Is it just to transfer content knowledge or is that just a part of a larger picture?

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Towards Truly Progressive Education Unions

Conor Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Collective Bargaining, Conor Williams, Public Sector Unions, Pragmatism, Progressivism, Conor P. Williams, History of Progressivism, John Dewey, Education Reform, Education News
Conor Williams

I know that workers need a voice to advocate for their interests when negotiating with their employers .... But I also know that teachers unions, in their current iteration, have lost their way.

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A Fan's Notes (The Sequel)

Matt Farmer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michelle Rhee, Gary Locke, Arne Duncan, Randi Weingarten, Charter Schools, National-Board-Certification, Joel Klein, Cps, Harlem Children's Zone, Ken Salazar, John Dewey, Teach for America, Geoffrey Canada, Chicago, Education News
Matt Farmer

Salazar and Locke should definitely take a page from the playbook of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. As the guy who once ran Chicago's schools, Duncan knows we're a nation of dummies.

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The Conundrum of Democratic Leadership

Glenn C. Altschuler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democracy, Leadership, Framing the Issues, Alexis De Tocqueville, Public Opinion, John Dewey, The Presidency, The Rhetorical Presidency, The State of the Union, Barack Obama, Books News
Glenn C. Altschuler

Keohane does not present her own comprehensive theory about leadership. She is skeptical -- and rightfully so -- of "one-size-fits-all" explanations.

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Diane Ravitch Wins the 2011 Moynihan Prize

Leonie Haimson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Moynihan Prize, American Academy of Political and Social Science, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Diane Ravitch, Leonie Haimson, John Dewey, Education News
Leonie Haimson

If it is indeed true that education is the civil rights issue of our generation, Ravitch is one of our most esteemed leaders in the struggle for the rights of all children, no matter where they attend school.

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The Appointment of Cathleen Black and the Trouble with Corporate Schooling

Gary Anderson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: School Reform, Corporate Education, David Steiner, Cathleen Black, New York City, Michael Bloomberg, Pay for Performance, David Whitman, Charter Schools, Charles Payne, Fordham Institute, High-Stakes Testing, John Dewey, Lisa Delpit, W. Edwards Deming, Education News
Gary Anderson

The corporate community and most venture philanthropists, persist in thinking schools should be run like businesses. This time around though, instead of the factory model school, they have bequeathed us the latest business fads.

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The 7 Myths of Class Size Reduction -- And the Truth

Leonie Haimson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Class Size, Florida, Achievement Gap, Bill Gates, John Dewey, Seven Myths, Jeb Bush, California, New York News
Leonie Haimson

If education is really the civil rights issue of our era, it is about time those people making policies for our schools begin to provide for other people's children what they provide for their own.

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Recovering the Commons: Inteview with Scholars on the Climate Justice Frontlines

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: South Africa, Big Oil, Big Coal, Climate Movement, Public Spaces, Betsy Taylor, Mountaintop Removal, India, John Dewey, Recovering the Commons, Herbert Reid, Coal, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Standing at the now infamous 7,500-acre mountaintop removal mine on Kayford Mountain in West Virginia, long-time scholars and activists Herb Reid and ...

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The 50 Most Influential Progressives of the 20th Century

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John L. Lewis, Louis Brandeis, Eleanor Roosevelt, Upton Sinclair, John Dewey, The Nation, W.E.B. Dubois, Frances Perkins, Roger Baldwin, Margaret Sanger, 50 Most Influential Progressives, Lincoln Steffens, Eugene Debs, Jane Addams, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Norman Thomas, Florence Kelley, Earl Warren, I.F. Stone, Ella Baker, Walter Reuther, Woody Guthrie, Jackie Robinson, Harry Hay, Thurgood Marshall, A.J. Musge, Rachel Carson, Sidney Hillman, Henry Wallace, A. Philip Randolph, Saul Alinsky, Paul Robeson, Politics News
Peter Dreier

We all stand on the shoulders of earlier generations of radicals and reformers who challenged the status quo of their day. Unfortunately, most Americans know little of this progressive history.

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