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19July

Montessori, Now 100, Goes Mainstream

Montessori, Now 100, Goes Mainstream

Article in The Washington Post

The kids who scampered about construction zones in the San Lorenzo slums of Rome gave the work crews fits. Then the builders heard some woman doctor was recruiting students for a new school. They begged her to enroll the troublemakers in the Casa dei Bambini.

Maria Montessori agreed. Her Children's House offered a few dozen young students freedom. They could sort blocks, measure with beads, play with wooden letters or explore another project of their choice. They roamed through classrooms rather than building sites.

19July

Learning the Montessori way

Learning the Montessori way

Article in BBC News

In the early part of the 20th Century, an Italian doctor called Maria Montessori developed a new approach to teaching, where children took responsibility for their own learning.

In a Montessori classroom, children work largely on their own with special equipment designed to develop their sensory, numeric, language and practical skills.

19July

Public School Stakes Its Future on the Montessori Way

Article in The NY Times

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - The old brick public school is sandwiched between Interstate 91 and the Western Massachusetts Correctional Alcohol Center. The surrounding neighborhood is run-down and starkly commercial. The available playground space is filled with parked cars.

Yet the Alfred G. Zanetti School consistently has one of the longest waiting lists under Springfield's districtwide program of school choice.

19July

Students Prosper with Montessori Method

Students Prosper with Montessori Method

Article in Scientific American

Nearly 100 years ago, a physician opened a school in a poor section of Rome. In doing so, Maria Montessori went beyond being the first female doctor in Italy and became the pioneer of a new method of education. A curriculum based on close observations of children, the Montessori method includes an individualized curriculum and no grades, among other innovations. And a new study among children from Milwaukee seems to show that it delivers significant benefits over traditional public schools for the youngest students.

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