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Winner–1997 AACTE Outstanding Writing Award
Foreword by Philip W. Jackson
"Many of today’s most talked-about educational ideas–notions such as the professional autonomy of teachers, multicultural education, character education, and more–pale in comparison when placed beside the way Dewey and his staff handled similar issues almost a century ago."
–From the Foreword
"The most readable account published of Dewey’s Laboratory School and its lessons for American schools today."
–Elliot W. Eisner, Stanford University
"So clearly does she draw the lines we can almost imagine ourselves as teachers in those fabled classrooms, intimately connected to John Dewey’s vision of democracy and education."
–Vivian Gussin Paley, Author and Teacher
"Laurel Tanner has written the book we should have had decades ago."
–John I. Goodlad, Co-Director, Center for Educational Renewal, and President, Institute for Educational Inquiry
Laurel Tanner examines closely the practices and policies of Dewey’s Laboratory School from its inception to the current day. The only book in the field with extensive excerpts from the school’s teachers’ reports and other original records, the volume provides a wealth of practical guidance on how schools today can introduce Deweyan reforms the way they were originally–and successfully–practiced.
