If you are interested in learning more about progressive education, please review the following list of books and articles.
Cohen, S. (1999). "We Object to these Tests," Rethinking Our Schools. Vol. 14, no. 1. (See www.rethinkingschools.org/ )
Dewey, J. (1966 [1916]). Democracy and Education, New York: Free Press.
Dewey, J. (1990 [1899]). School and Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Dewey, J. (1997 [1938]). Experience and Education. New York: Touchstone.
Educational Leadership. (1998). "How the Brain Learns." Vol. 56, no. 3.
Elkind, David (1981), The Hurried Child: Addison Wesley
Elkind, David (1987), Miseducation: Aldfred A. Knopf
Fiske, E. B. (1999). Champions of Change: The Impact of the Arts on Learning. Washington, DC: Arts Education Partnership: President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.
Gardner, H. (1999). The Disciplined Mind. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Gardner, H. (2001). "Stick to Testing the Basics," New York Times, Op Ed, April 21, 2001.
Kohn, A. (1999). The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards." Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Kohn, A. (2004). What Does it Mean to be Well Educated? Boston: Beacon Press.
Olson, L. (1999). "Dewey: The Progressive Era’s Misunderstood Giant," Education Week. April 21, 1999, Vol. 18. no. 32, p. 29.
Orrill, R. (1997). Education and Democracy: Re-imagining Liberal Learning in America. New York: College Entrance Examination Board.
Popham, J. W. (1999). "Why Standardized Tests Don’t Measure Educational Quality," Educational Leadership, Vol. 56, no. 6, pp. 8-15.
Progressive Education in Practice
Darling-Hammond, L. (1997). The Right to Learn: A Blueprint for Creating Schools That Work. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Educational Leadership. (1999). "The Constructivist Classroom," Vol. 57, no. 3.
The Eight-Year Study Revisited: Lessons from the Past for the Present. National Middle School Association. (See http://www.nmsa.org)
Holt, J. (1995). How Children Fail. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co.
Holt, J. (1995). How Children Learn. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co.
Horace. (1996). "Looking Collaboratively at Student Work: An Essential Toolkit." Vol. 13, no. 2.
Neill, A. S. (1960). Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing. New York: Hart Publishing Co.
Mercogliano, C. (1998). Making it Up as We Go Along: The Story of the Albany Free School. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
Pratt, Caroline (1990 [1948] ), I Learn From Children: Harper & Row
Rotzel, G. (1971). The School in Rose Valley. Balitmore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press
Smith, F. (1997). Reading Without Nonsense. New York: Teachers College Press.
Research
Bensman, D. (1994). Direct Assessment of a Progressive Public Elementary School: Graduates of Central Park East. ERIC Document Reproduction Service.
Brooks, C., Muir, M, & Haywood, E. (2000). "The Eight Year Study Web Site Project." Farmington, ME. (See http://www.8yearstudy.org)
Campbell, L. & Campbell, B. (1999). Multiple Intelligences and Student Achievement: Success Stories from Six Schools. Alexandria: ASCD.
Felner, R. et al. (1997). "The Impact of School Reform for the Middle Grades: A Longitudinal Study of a Network Engaged in Turning Points-based Comprehensive School Transformation," in Ruby Takahashi and David A. Hamburg, Preparing Adolescents for the Twenty-First Century, New York: Cambridge UP.