It's All Progressive Now
ore evidence that what we used to call progressive education is becoming mainstream comes from Quest University in Canada, a brand-new elite school in British Columbia, chartered as the country's first secular, independent university. In a recent Chronicle of Higher Education essay, Quest President David J. Helfand describes the intriguing process Quest administrators and faculty used in selecting components of the curriculum. Quest embraced many practices common to progressive schools (collaborative learning, longer scheduling blocks, etc.), furthering a trend toward progressive that we see at more and more traditional schools