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The Avery Coonley School is an independent school serving academically gifted  students in Downers Grove, Illinois, U.S. Avery Coonley was founded  in 1906 to promote the progressive educational  theories developed by John Dewey and other turn of the 20th century  philosophers,  and was a nationally recognized model for progressive  education well into  the 1940s. From 1943 to 1965, Avery Coonley was part of the National College of Education serving as a living laboratory  for teacher training and educational research. It became a regional research center in the late 1960s and a school for the gifted in the  early 1970s. The campus, designed in the Prairie and Arts and Crafts styles, was landscaped by Jens Jensen,  who was known as "dean of the world's landscape  architects." Avery Coonley was added to the National  Register of Historic Places  in 2007, citing the "long-lasting  influence on schools throughout the country" of  the educational program and the design of the building and grounds. (more...)

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