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Francis W. Parker School is an independent school serving students who live in the Chicago area from Pre-K through twelfth grade. Located in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood, the school is based on the progressive education philosophies of John Dewey and Colonel Francis Wayland Parker, emphasizing community and citizenship. [7]
Francis Wayland Parker (October 9, 1837 – March 2, 1902) was a pioneer of the progressive school movement in the United States. He believed that education should include the complete development of an individual — mental, physical, and moral.
Principal of the Francis W. Parker School, pioneer of progressive education Flora Juliette Cooke (December 25, 1864 – February 21, 1953) was an American educator who played a prominent role in the progressive education movement of the early 20th century.
Parker was founded in 1912 by Clara Sturges Johnson and William Templeton Johnson, themselves recent arrivals to the West Coast. The Johnsons' nieces had attended the original Francis W. Parker School in Chicago, founded eleven years earlier, and sought to recreate the same progressive education standards at the original institution. [1]
Francis R. Parker (1800–1894), farmer, lawyer and political figure in Nova Scotia; Francis Wayland Parker (1837–1902), American champion of progressive education; Francis Hubert Parker (1850–1927), American attorney and judge; Francis Parker (UK politician) (1851–1931), British Member of Parliament for Henley, 1886–1895
The Quincy Method, also known as the Quincy Plan, or the Quincy system of learning, was a child-centered, progressive approach to education developed by Francis W. Parker, then superintendent of schools in Quincy, Massachusetts, United States, in 1875.
Pages in category "Francis W. Parker School (Chicago) alumni" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Anita Eugenie McCormick Blaine (1866-1954) was an American philanthropist and political activist. An heir to the McCormick Reaping Machine Works fortune built by her father, Cyrus McCormick (1809–1884), Blaine funded the launch of Chicago's Francis W. Parker Elementary School, the New World Foundation, the Progressive Party (1948), and the radical New York newspaper, the National Guardian.