The Montessori approach to education teaches academic subjects, but also nurtures a child's emotional health and social skills Children in Montessori schools are encouraged to learn and experiment ...

As head of the Montessori Center School, Melanie Jacobs believes that the Montessori method — which nurtures students’ natural curiosity and gets them interested, engaged, and invested in their own ...

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I first learned about the Montessori method when I was in grad school for my master's degree in marriage and family therapy. This was well before I had my first child, so I wasn't looking at this way ...

Two decades ago, Stacey Constantian discovered Montessori education. Back then, Constantian was the mother of a bright 4-year-old girl who had taught herself to read. Her daughter didn’t fit in at the ...

Shifting that philosophy from directive (should) to open-ended (can) is at the heart of the Montessori Method of teaching. Rather than being told what to do, children are granted independence to ...

Choosing the right school or learning style for your little one can be overwhelming and often feel like a major life decision. After all, you want to start them out on the right foot and pick an ...

Education seems to be a topic on everyone's mind these days. With ongoing debates about the state of public schools and President Bush's education reform policy, known as "No Child Left Behind," many ...

Is an Italian pioneer of education, born in the 19th century, behind striking cases of revolutionary innovation like Google and Amazon? This is what Steve Denning suggests, in an outstanding post in ...

Most of us think of radical scientific innovation as the whiz-bang invention or discovery that displaces what came before and reshapes the world as we know it. Transistors, assembly lines, and ...