9 views 
0 shares 
0 commentsCreated/changed by:
System
set bookmark!
Little Red School House, United States
Category: Attraction
Address details
40 Charlton StNew York
NY 10014
USA
New York, United States Print route » N40° 43' 37" W74° 0' 17" (40.726944444444, -74.004722222222)
Start navigation »
Phone & WWW
Business hours
Info
The Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School, also referred to as LREI, was founded by Elisabeth Irwin in 1921 in Manhattan, New York City as the Little Red School House, and is regarded as the city's first progressive school. Created as a joint public-private educational experiment, the school tested principles of progressive education that had been advocated since the turn of the 20th century by John Dewey. The founders postulated that the lessons of progressive education could be applied successfully in the crowded, ethnically diverse public schools of the nation's largest city.
