Name: Loving Learning
ISBN: 9780393246162

Ayelet Waldman

Katherine Ellison

Tom Little

A noted educator and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author team up to introduce readers to progressive education, which has been forging creative thinkers in the United States for more than 100 years, and explain how this practice—which emphasizes critical thinking, problem solving, communication and collaboration—can turn students into lifelong learners.

How Progressive Education Can Save America's Schools

Loving Learning

Jeni Enjaian

While reserving books from my to-read list from the library, I stumbled across this title. I reserved the book because of my personal background. Not only did I earn a degree in education and teach for two years, I also wrote my senior history paper in college on Progressive Education in a local school district. I figured that this book would be light on the historical aspect seeing as how it is an education book not a work of history. However, I believe that the author could have made his argument stronger by spending more than a simple chapter on a cursory overview of Progressive Education. Just like the rest of the book (and many other education books) the chapter on the history of Progressive Education was light on facts and details and heavy on anecdotes and name dropping. Despite Little's indistinct term definition, my desire to teach was restarted just a tad. (Then I remembered why I'm not cut out for it. :D) Ultimately Little fails in his goal of trying to persuade the reader to his point of view, that Progressive Education is without a doubt the way that all schools need to go.
For this interested in progressive education this book is a good start but do not end your research about the topic with this book. Keep investigating.

Loving Learning How Progressive Education Can Save America's Schools

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