Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School
A Pre-K-12 Progressive Education
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Democracy: The Little Red School House "Our Symbol of Democracy," Foreword by Elisabeth Irwin
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Please click HERE to enjoy this collection, written in the early days of the Little Red School House, likely sometime in the late 1930s, which describes examples of how the school fulfilled one of its founding principles. As is promised in our current mission statement, "Students graduate from our diverse community as active participants in our democratic society,..." Elisabeth Irwin and three of her early colleagues, in the language of the times, shares their thoughts on this important endeavor.