This style of teaching is called the Harkness method, and adopting it at the University of Michigan would greatly benefit our student body and academic culture as a whole.

Russell Weatherspoon, or "Spoon," as his students call him, took a seat at the sand-colored table in the center of his classroom at Phillips Exeter Academy, a prestigious boarding school in Exeter, ...

Each day, Dunham middle and upper school students can be found seated around a table, engaged in deep discussions, sharing ideas supported by evidence in their academic materials, and listening to ...

This week Upland Country Day School is starting the school year as the second middle school in the nation to incorporate the Harkness teaching method and Harkness tables at the middle school level ...

MMI Preparatory School recently purchased two Harkness tables to transform two classrooms into collaborative learning labs to help prepare students for the discussion-based learning courses they will ...

The classroom is filled with chatter—questions, comments, and, mostly, opinions fly around the room—yet Sarah Wadleigh, the teacher, sits quietly at the lectern doodling. The unfolding events are all ...

Editor’s Note: This story describing the Harkness Discussion is by Amy Frierson, a marketing assistant at Prince Avenue Christian. She has a degree in middle school education. As I stepped into the ...