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The Progressive Education Movement: Is It Still a Factor in Today’s Schools?reviewed by Jim Carl - January 02, 2008 Title: The Progressive Education Movement: Is It Still a Factor in Today’s Schools? Author(s): William Hayes Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham ISBN: 1578865220, Pages: 165, Year: 2006 Search for book at Amazon.com In this concise volume, William Hayes answers a perennial question regarding progressive education: Is it dead yet? In his sketch of progressive education and its opponents over the last century, Hayes suggests that reports of its death are somewhat exaggerated. To be sure, in recent years traditionalists are very much in control: policies that the federal government has encouraged through its A Nation at Risk report and the No Child Left Behind lawcurriculum standards, accountability, high-stakes testingseemingly have pushed progressive education into the final decline, according to Hayes (p. xv). Yet, continued demands for progressive education that are alive and well in gifted and talented programs and in Montessori, charter, and middle schools, together with support for progressive methods in teacher education programs and vocal criticisms of the testing and accountability movement in education schools and elsewhere, make it inaccurate to refer to the fall of progressive education (p. xv).
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- Jim Carl
Cleveland State University JIM CARL is an associate professor at Cleveland State University who specializes in the history of American and European education. He chairs the Department of Curriculum and Foundations. His most recent work, “Industrialization and Public Education: Social Cohesion and Social Stratification” is forthcoming in the Handbook of Comparative Education, Berlin: Springer Publishers. Currently, Carl is sorting out the political alignments and ideologies behind school voucher initiatives in Louisiana, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, and Ohio in a study tentatively titled “Freedom of Choice: Vouchers Movements in American Education, 1955-2002."
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