Article: Introduction: progressive education.

In this issue, we mean to address two vague but important questions: what are the constraints on and possibilities for progressive teaching and learning now? And what choices will progressives in our line of work face in the future?

This magazine has of course been addressing those questions throughout its thirty-year history, by printing articles about student-centered courses and pedagogies and about democratic efforts of many kinds in schools and universities. Here, our approach is more historical. We offer snapshots and analyses of progressive education in various settings and at various times over the past century. Maybe these backwards and sideways glances ...

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