Progressive (definition): Making progress towards better conditions; employing or advocating more enlightened or liberal ideas, new or experimental methods.
The Progressive Teacher Blog is about progressive education in state (public) schools. It takes 1896 – the year John Dewey opened the Laboratory School in Chicago – as the start of progressive education in the modern age. The blog is not about de-schooling, nor is it about the progressive education that independent (private) schools provide for the wealthy elite.
Progressive education
The blog comments on the issues facing state education from the perspective of progressive educators. Topics include forms of assessment, cuts to school budgets, and pedagogical models.
Progressive educators
The blog celebrates pioneers of progressive education in state schools, such as Rosa Bassett, Stanislav Shatsky, Alex Bloom, and Deborah Meier.
Debates with traditionalists
The blog challenges traditional education in its modern-day forms – zero-tolerance behaviour techniques, ‘evidence-based’ practice, knowledge-rich curricula, and the science of learning.
A teacher in an inner-city state school, motivated by the spread of government-sponsored traditional methods and ideology over the last 10 years in the UK, created the Progressive Teacher Blog and writes the posts.
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