Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deploring the excesses of progressive education. He was right. Yet the best of his ideas survive and thrive-not in the few U.S. schools that still seem to be straight out of Auntie Mame, but in such well-ordered citadels of learning as Chicago's private Francis W. Parker School...
...measure of Parker's vitality is that last fall its 50-year-old plant was condemned as a firetrap-and last month it proudly opened a handsome new $2,500,000 building on the same North Side site. Vital were the $750 loans by Parker parents, who provide, says Principal Cleveland A. Thomas, "the highest order of parent participation of any school I have ever known." The parents could feel confident of a sound investment. Said Harvard College's Dean John Monro, chief speaker at the dedication of the building: "I have never known a dull...
Character & Community. Parker owes its name and ideas to Francis W. Parker, a New England schoolmaster, whom Dewey himself called "the father of progressive education.'' Colonel Parker-he won the rank as a Union officer in the Civil War-was less a Dewey-style theorist than an artist with children. His talent revealed itself in his famed 1870s reform of the rote-taught schools of Quincy, Mass. Said he: "The primary concern of education is character. A school should be a model home, a complete community, an embryonic democracy...
...idea attracted Mrs. Emmons Blaine, daughter of Reaper Inventor Cyrus McCormick, who gave the colonel $1,000,000 to launch the Parker School in 1901. The colonel spawned all sorts of innovations in U.S. education-specialized teachers, morning assemblies, the teaching of art, music and drama...
Heaven for Educators. Parker permits such progressivisms as a science teacher bringing a live cow to class because "city children rarely see one." It shuns conventional marks through the eighth grade. And yet, the school heavily emphasizes the three Rs, beginning in prekindergarten. First-graders read the newspaper, and second-graders get daily drills in public speaking. Science has always been strong; college math and physics have been offered for years...