John Dewey 
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
6/27/2022
The Classic Model of Education and Democracy Can't Address Today's School Politics
by Steven Mintz
The idea of education serving democracy by producing informed citizens is tested by the lack of agreement about what that goal means. Can the competing claims on the education system be reconciled?
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4/18/2021
What Do John Dewey's Century-Old Thoughts on Anti-Asian Bigotry Teach Us?
by Charles F. Howlett
A century ago, the American philosopher and educator took a sabattical to China and concluded that, if encouraged to learn about other cultures, White Americans could be brought to acceptance of Asian Americans and other immigrants as equal participants in democracy. COVID-inspired bigotry shows this dream remains unrealized.
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8-10-14
Did Mexico Reshape the American Civil Rights Movement?
by Ruben Flores
Mexico, it turns out, shaped America just as America shaped Mexico. And it did this by adopting John Dewey's Pragmatism.
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2-24-14
The Secret Life of Teaching: Progressive Faith
by Horace Dewey
In which our narrator considers the curiously broad appeal of his namesake.
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