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Lucy Sprague Mitchell: The Gift
Lucy was given a gift of financial support from one of her cousins. She was to use the money for an educational project of her choosing. Lucy decided to put this gift towards an idea that came from some of her colleagues such as Dewey, Pratt, and many others. It would be a place to study children.
Their idea became known as the Bureau of Educational Experiments. It was a place where researchers and teachers were able to collect information about educational practices of the time and create new projects and school programs.
It was opened in October of 1916 in Greenwich Village. Caroline Pratt's Play School was the lab school for this organization. A democratic Working Council ran the bureau. Collaboration and cooperative decision-making were the ways in which it was operated and run.
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