Ideas And Directions
Here, we outline current educational research and trends, and educational commentary and opinion. Selected articles from current and recent issues are published here on-line.
- Introduction: How do we Know that What we're Doing Works? Reports on recent research suggesting the effectiveness of progressive approaches to education.
- Authentic Achievement: The School Restructuring Study. What are authentic learning, authentic instruction? Under what conditions in schools do they thrive? A multiyear federally-funded study, the School Restructuring Study, offers some answers.
- The Graduates: Where Did they Go? What Did they Really Learn? A study of educational outcomes in one of the leading progressive schools in the New York City public school system.
- The Independent School Innovation Study. What promotes the development and continuation of innovative practices. Leading independent secondary schools form a consortium to study educational innovation.
- The Definition and the Uses of Kowledge in Contemporary Society, and the Implications for a Park School Education By David Jackson (Opening Day Address, September 1996)
- Current Partnerships and Projects Some projects and partnerships currently being developed by Park and the Center for Contemporary Education
- Habits of the Discovering Mind Adapted from a paper by Al Cuoco (Used with permission)
- Ethics, Moral Development, and Progressive Education A selected reading list for a comprehensive survey of ethics and moral development and education, compiled by John Mason
- Integrated Curriculum Integrated Curriculum, Performance Assessment, and Integrated Learning: Overview; Origins; Conceptual Framework; Research and Theory
- Integrated Curriculum: The State of the Art Outstanding examples of curriculum integration, at Park and elsewhere
- Problem-Based Learning and Authentic Tasks
- The Broader Educational Mission
- Pure Poetry
- Children's Perceptions of Leadership Review of recently presented research on perceptions of 8-9 year old children about leadership