progressive education

The School is Dead, Long Live the School

This is actually a story about books but somehow the schools took over. It does start with the books -…

5 years ago

Timeless Learning

I like the title of this book about how to do school right: Timeless Learning. The launch date is August…

6 years ago

The Golf Links

The Manumit School was an experimental Christian socialist boarding school in Pawling, NY. and later Bristol, Pennsylvania. Manumit means freedom and…

7 years ago

Remembering Joe Bower

I never met Joe Bower but it seemed easy to imagine knowing him.  He was one of those people you…

9 years ago

Finding the Heart of Progressive Education

Finding the Heart of a Progressive Education What follows is the text of the article recently published by Hudson Valley…

9 years ago

“Let’s Make It”: Education Comes Full Circle

Unless the mass of workers are to be blind cogs and pinions in the apparatus they employ, they must have…

9 years ago

What if? The Movie

The Poughkeepsie Day School difference. for those of you who don't like movies, you can view the slideshow below instead.…

9 years ago

Danger! Love of Learning alert!

Tech director Davis Held sent us all a great directory of free online resources for making stuff. So how could…

9 years ago

A Day in the Life of PDS

Great student made video. Thanks Ava!

10 years ago

Why PDS? A Lower School Parent Writes …

If you're thinking about Loving Learning and what all that emerging, integrated and experiential curriculum looks like in the real…

10 years ago

Loving Learning: Thank You Tom Little

Tom Little’s lifelong passion for progressive education emerged directly from his experience with its antithesis. I was six years old,…

10 years ago

Surprise! Deep Learning and Democracy

There’s solid evidence that American students do well when they are encouraged to think for themselves and expected to collaborate…

10 years ago

Alfie Kohn is coming to Poughkeepsie Day School

Alfie Kohn is coming on April 25th. Just look at the great header Christina Powers created to herald the news:…

12 years ago

The Perils of Education

What is more discouraging in history than the way in which, again and again, the human spirit is freed from…

12 years ago

“We are not teaching our children … what they need to know.”

The world is moving at a tremendous rate; no one knows where. We must prepare our children not for the…

12 years ago