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  2. Progressive education - Wikipedia

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    Progressive education, or educational progressivism, is a pedagogical movement that began in the late 19th century and has persisted in various forms to the present. In Europe, progressive education took the form of the New Education Movement .

  3. Caroline Pratt (educator) - Wikipedia

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    Caroline Pratt (May 13, 1867 – June 6, 1954 [1]) was an American social thinker and progressive educational reformer whose ideas were influential in educational reform, policy, and practice. [ 2 ]

  4. Gary Plan - Wikipedia

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    The Paradox of Progressive Education: The Gary Plan and Urban Schooling, (Kennikat Press, 1979), online book review; Cremin, Lawrence A. The transformation of the school: progressivism in American education, 1896–1957 (Knopf, 1961), pp. 153-160. Dewey, John, and Evelyn Dewey. Schools of To-morrow (1915), pp 175-204 and 251-268. online

  5. William Heard Kilpatrick - Wikipedia

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    Proponents of Progressive Education and the Project Method reject traditional schooling that focuses on memorization, rote learning, strictly organized classrooms (desks in rows; students always seated), and typical forms of assessment. He has been described as a developmentalist.

  6. The Transformation of the School - Wikipedia

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    Titone, Renzo (1962). "Review of The Transformation of the School. Progressivism in American Education 1876-1957". International Review of Education. 8 (3/4): 473–475. ISSN 0020-8566. JSTOR 3441987. Weiss, Robert M. (1962). "Review of The Transformation of the School, Progressivism in American Education, 1876-1957". History of Education ...

  7. George Counts - Wikipedia

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    George Sylvester Counts (December 9, 1889 – November 10, 1974) was an American educator and influential education theorist.. An early proponent of the progressive education movement of John Dewey, Counts became its leading critic affiliated with the school of Social reconstructionism in education.

  8. Francis Wayland Parker - Wikipedia

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    Francis Wayland Parker (October 9, 1837 – March 2, 1902) was a pioneer of the progressive school movement in the United States. He believed that education should include the complete development of an individual — mental, physical, and moral.

  9. Quincy Method - Wikipedia

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    Parker, a pioneer of the progressive school movement, rejected the traditional rigid school routine, exemplified by rote learning and the spelling-book method, and even stated that the spelling book should be burned, [3] although he did favor oral spelling. Emphasis was instead placed on social skills and self-expression through cultural ...