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They Teach Themselves to Read | The Open School

by Aaron Browder, Open School staff July 4, 2022 Madison couldn’t read. She was seven years old, enrolled in ...

Progressive Education Events Line Up – Progressive Education

June  15th, 11am BST – How can educators prepare students for adult life? Live webinar in the Progressive Education Group:- ...

Control Is a Myth | The Open School

by Aaron Browder, Open School staff June 25, 2022 How can we be sure that kids will learn everything ...

Do Schools Kill Creativity? By Ortal Green – Progressive Education

Education shapes our children’s future. But does our current education system provide our children with the learning environment they need ...

7 Principles of Self-Directed Education | The Open School

by Aaron Browder, Open School staff June 14, 2022 In a conventional school, children are fed textbooks and lessons, ...

Chickens with missions | The Circle School

Concealed in a shipping container, six secret agents arrived in April — unarmed, disarming, and charming. Their handlers, the Cool ...

Monthly Happenings May 2022 | The Open School

June 1, 2022 Happy Pride Month. Welcome to the Monthly Happenings! It was one heck of a month, to ...

You Can’t Skip Play | The Open School

by Angela Young, Open School staff May 25, 2022 From trips to the local Jr. College for Chemistry Class, ...

Real World Learning: School 21 and XP – Progressive Education

Here is a report by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER), commissioned by the Edge Foundation (published June 2019), ...

Punishment, by Sean Bellamy – Progressive Education

”When people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.”Albert ...

The Side Effects of School: A Crisis in Mental Health Can’t Be Solved Through Therapy, by Dr Naomi Fisher – Progressive Education

We’re facing a crisis in young people’s mental health.  Every day I get emails from several parents, asking if I ...

Community in Committee | The Circle School

Over the past year, I was a member of The Circle School’s ad hoc Anti-Racism Committee, formed by the Board ...

Announcing a series of 5 FREE events by Progressive Education and Omnis Education – Progressive Education

We are delighted to be collaborating with Omnis Education to bring you a series of five live webinars in our ...

Rebooting Public Education – Part 1, by Richard Fransham – Progressive Education

Introduction This essay is for people who steadfastly believe that healthy democracies are dependent upon public education being everybody’s first ...

A New Educational Paradigm for the 21st century, by Dr Ian Cunningham – Progressive Education

Just a week before writing this piece, the CEO of a major company and I were discussing what the educational ...