The late 1930s and early 1940s were the peak of progressive
education in the United States, and Elisabeth Irwin's Little Red
School House in New York City was iconic in that movement. For the
first time, stories and recollections from students who attended
Little Red during this era have been collected by author Jane
Roland Martin. Now in their late eighties, these classmates can
still sing the songs they learned in elementary school and credit
the progressive education they loved with shaping their outlooks
and life trajectories. Martin frames these stories from the former
students "tell it like it was" point of view with philosophical
commentary, bringing to light the underpinnings of the kind of
progressive education employed at Little Red and commenting
critically on the endeavor. In a time when the role of the arts in
education and public schooling itself are under attack in the
United States, Martin makes a case for a different style of
education designed for the defense of democracy and expresses hope
that an education like hers can become an opportunity for all.
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