Why revisit John Dewey’s philosophy on education and democracy now? I think it is time to revisit Dewey’s philosophy about the value of field trips, classroom experiments, music instruction and ...

RALEIGH — Just about everyone has an opinion about how to improve education, and it’s usually an opinion passionately held and forcefully argued. It’s not hard to see why. After all, schools are the ...

This article is adapted from Paul Kengor’s book Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century. Google the phrase “founding father of public education,” and you’ll likely ...

EUROPEAN domination of American educational theory ended with the nineteenth century. Professor John Dewey, long of I Columbia University but then of the University of Chicago, published The School ...

The name of the thriller was Too Lively to Live. The man in carpet slippers sitting in an easy chair reading it was nearly 87, and the No. 1 theorist of U.S. education. John Dewey had just published ...

Dewey spread his beliefs by publishing more than two dozen books and 700 academic journal articles in the fields of education, philosophy, psychology, religion, logic, politics, ethics and art. His ...

CARBONDALE — An interdisciplinary, international conference next week at Southern Illinois University Carbondale will focus on the work of American philosopher and educator John Dewey and highlight ...

One Indian summery evening last week 1,000 people gathered in Manhattan to praise “America’s greatest philosopher.” It was John Dewey’s 80th birthday, and many distinguished men and women—among them ...

Dewey spread his beliefs by publishing more than two dozen books and 700 academic journal articles in the fields of education, philosophy, psychology, religion, logic, politics, ethics and art. His ...