Excerpt from Before BooksThese school records, written by the classroom teachers from Copious daily notes, are organized according to a plan that has been adopted after much painstaking study and co-operative effort on the part Of the school staff. They are in themselves experimental. Their publication invites criticism and suggestions in matters of form as well as of content. Indeed, as Miss Pratt has stated, the purpose Of the school in publ...
Excerpt from Before Books
These school records, written by the classroom teachers from Copious daily notes, are organized according to a plan that has been adopted after much painstaking study and co-operative effort on the part Of the school staff. They are in themselves experimental. Their publication invites criticism and suggestions in matters of form as well as of content. Indeed, as Miss Pratt has stated, the purpose Of the school in pu...
A lucid presentation of what progressive education can accomplish."--"The New York Times" How should schools prepare students for the Information Age? The successful worker of the future - a creative, independent thinker who works well in teams--would seem to be too self-contradictory to be the deliberate product of a school. A century ago, the American educator Caroline Pratt created an innovative school that she hoped would produce such inde...