How would you rank the top 5 most successful k-12 pedagogies?

Eg. Classical education, IB program, Waldorf
Wondering about statistically proven successful programs. I don’t have kids im honestly just curious, so this question might be misguided as I don’t have a great understanding of the true differences between educational pedagogies and the extent to which they are compared to each other.
Whenever I read about them, I get the sense that a lot of progressive educational programs boil down to “teaching kids how to learn”, so any info on the differences in leading educational theories would be cool!

Submitted July 20, 2026 at 07:49AM by marg0j https://ift.tt/4hDZjsb