Storming the Citadel: The Fundamental Revolution Against Progressive Education.

Overview & Synopsis

The first four chapters ("Progressive Education,""The Impact of Progressive Education,""The Remedies: Focusing on the Wrong Problems," and "Progressive Education Challenged") examine the deleterious effect that progressive education has had on student achievement and on society as a whole. The last five chapters ("Fundamental Education,""The Pasadena Story: A Brief Summary,""Fundamental Schools,""The Fundamental Schools and Black Children," and "An Overview") emphasize the ideas behind the fundamental schools movement and give a brief history of the successful fundamental schools in the Pasadena, California, system. It is argued that the academic achievement of black and white students in fundamental schools is significantly greater than that of similar students in other kinds of schools. (IRT)