Progressive Education

The Great Depression of the 1930s created some of the most difficult economic times in the history of the United States, with the agricultural sector of the economy taking an especially severe hit. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs aimed to help the rural poor,…

Sophie Koulomzin (née Schidlovsky) (1903–2000) was an Eastern Orthodox Christian and Russian émigrée who undertook foundational work in the development of formal religious education for Orthodox communities in the West. She brought together a new strand of creative modern Orthod…