In Kathleen Loomis's preschool classroom at the Bennington College Early Childhood Center, the goal for children is not to produce beautiful and expressive artworks or to learn specific methods of working with art media--although those things do happen. Here, the curriculum is built around the philosophy that learning to think and create with art…

America's approach to physical education and exercise in the schools is reflected in the contributions of two 19th-century physical educators named Allen, one of fairly major importance and one of less importance. Perhaps the most significant contributions to the development of school physical education were made by Nathaniel Topliff Allen at the…