Back to the Lab Again
In which I visit Arne Duncan’s alma mater on the hunt for *secret sauce*
The University of Chicago Lab Schools which Arne Duncan attended from K-12.
Reader: you are almost certainly aware that our Secretary of Education, Mr. Arne Duncan, has many excellent ideas regarding how to enhance the excellence of our failed and failing public schools. But did you ever pause to ask yourself *from whence did those ideas come?* It’s field trip time and our destination is none other than the very school that nurtured young Arne’s spirit: the University of Chicago Lab Schools, the bastion of progressive education founded by none other than John Dewey himself in 1896. And since I know that you are, at this very moment, administering a high-stakes test, I recently took it upon myself to drop in on the school on your behalf.
*True education frees the human spirit*
Francis who?
My tour started, where else?, at the entrance to the Lab Schools, where Francis Parker awaits ready to greet us. Who is Francis Parker, you ask? Only the father of progressive education who hated on all things standardized and rote, not to mention rejecting discipline of the harsh variety. If neither Parker’s name nor his *whole child* legacy Back to the Lab Again | EduShyster:
My tour started, where else?, at the entrance to the Lab Schools, where Francis Parker awaits ready to greet us. Who is Francis Parker, you ask? Only the father of progressive education who hated on all things standardized and rote, not to mention rejecting discipline of the harsh variety. If neither Parker’s name nor his *whole child* legacy Back to the Lab Again | EduShyster: