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 ...

John Dewey, a philosopher and proponent of progressive education throughout the first half of the 20th century, believed that an educational “community” should be made up of individuals who are ...

Martin Bickman’s Op-Ed piece, “Won’t You Come Home, John Dewey?” July 20, places altogether too much hope on the ability of John Dewey or -- by extension -- anyone else to resolve the polarization ...

In early March at the National Association of Independent Schools annual conference, educator, blogger, and thought leader Grant Lichtman summarized his findings from a months-long, coast-to-coast ...

For much of its history, American education has seemed more like a battleground between warring factions than an evolving and cumulative field of increasingly refined concepts and methods. On one side ...

John Dewey believed every person is capable of being an artist, living an artful life of social interaction that benefits and thereby beautifies the world. In Art as Experience, Dewey reminds his ...

Memphis is to Elvis as Burlington is to ... John Dewey? Not really. Yes, both cities have the historic homesteads, and both cities were springboards to international renown. But Elvis is undoubtedly ...

Unruffled by blasts from Buenos Aires’ Luna Park and the University of Chicago’s Midway, unshaken by waverings and defections in the ranks of his own followers. John Dewey at 84 stands rock-firm in ...