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Stanford University professor Nel Noddings, the author of several notable books on progressive education, does not much like conventional schooling. Among the punches she throws in the first chapter ...

Your Feb. 23, 2005, issue carries a Commentary by Stanford University professor of education Nel Noddings (“Rethinking a Bad Law: One Scholar’s Indictment of the No Child Left Behind Act”). Professor ...