Table of Contents

Introduction; A.R.Sadovnik & S.F.Semel Charlotte Hawkins Brown and the Palmer Institute; K.C.Reynolds Marietta Johnson and the Organic School; J.W.Newman Margaret Naumburg and the Walden School; B.Hinitz Caroline Pratt and the City and Country School; M.E.Hauser Helen Parkhurst and the Dalton School; S.F.Semel Elsie Ripley Clapp and the Arthurdale Schools; S.Stack Carmelita Chase Hinton and the Putney School; S.McIntosh Lloyd Flora J. Cooke and the Francis W. Parker School; G.L.Kroepel Margaret Haley: Progressive Education and the Teacher; K.Rousmaniere Ella Flagg Young and the Chicago Schools; J.M.Blount Laura Bragg and the Charleston Museum; L.Anderson Allen Charl Williams and the National Education Association; W.J.Urban And Gladly Would She Learn: Margaret Willis and the Ohio State University School; C.Kridel From Susan Isaacs to Lillian Weber and Deborah Meier: A Progressive Legacy in England and the United States; J.Hall Conclusion; A.R.Sadovnik & S.F.Semel

About the Author

ALAN R. SADOVNIK is Professor of Education and Sociology Chair of the Department of Education and Academic Foundations at Rutgers University-Newark. He is the co-editor (with Susan F. Semel) of 'Schools of Tomorrow' Schools of Today: Whast Happened to Progressive Education and Knowledge and Pedagogy: The Sociology of Basil Bernstein. - SUSAN F. SEMEL is Associate Professor in the School of Education at the City College of New York. She is the author of The Dalton School: The Transformation of a Progressive School, one of the seminal histories of the progressive school movement in the United States.

Reviews

'Founding Mothers and Others is a rich book, which undoubtedly meets the aim 'to document the contribution of women to the Progressive Education Movement'' - Paedagogica Historica