Progressive Education

Howard Gardner, The Disciplined Mind, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999.

Independent Curriculum Group, Putney School: Learning How to Make Things Work, Read Article

Daniel Pink, A Whole New Mind, Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age, Riverhead Books, 2005

Alfie Kohn, The Case Against Standardized Testing: Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools, Portsmouth: Heinemann, 2000.

Connie E. North, Social Justice in Education, 2008.

Lynn Olson, "Dewey: The Progressive Era’s Misunderstood Giant," Education Week, April 21, 1999, Vol. 18. No. 32, p. 29.

Robert Orrill, Education and Democracy: Re-imagining Liberal Learning in America, New York: College Entrance Examination Board, 1997.

Talk by Sir Kenneth Robinson Listen

Progressive Education in the 1940’s. Watch Video

(A surprisingly relevant look at some of the early progressive movement)