«Schools of Tomorrow,» Schools of Today

Progressive Education in the 21st Century Second Edition

Susan F. Semel, Alan R. Sadovnik, Ryan W. Coughlan

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781433112669
• eBook ISBN: 9781453917558
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Educational Policy

The second edition of «Schools of Tomorrow, » Schools of Today: Progressive Education in the 21 st Century documents a new collection of child-centered progressive schools founded in the first half of the twentieth century and provides histories of some contemporary examples of progressive practices. Part I discusses six progressive schools founded in the first part of the twentieth century (City and Country; Dalton; the Weekday School at Riverside Church; The Laboratory School at the Institute of Child Study; Alabama State Teachers College Laboratory High School; and Highlander), tracing them from their beginnings. Part II examines four more contemporary schools (Central Park East 1; Central Park East Secondary; Learning Community Charter School; and KIPP TEAM Academy), showing how progressive practices gained momentum from the 1960s onward. As a volume in the History of Schools and Schooling series, this book seeks to look to the past for what it can teach us today.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Photographs
• Chapter 1: Introduction (Susan F. Semel, Alan R. Sadovnik, and Ryan W. Coughlan)
• Part I: “Schools of Tomorrow”
• Part II: Schools of Today