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 ...

We are in the middle of a renovation project to our 100-year-old house. As I was packing “stuff” to move from one bedroom to another, I came upon a box of drawings and daily reports from Ms. Diane — ...

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 ...

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PORT EWEN – Anyone entering one of Montessori kindergarten classrooms at the Robert Graves Elementary School is likely to be greeted by a friendly, firm handshake from a four-foot 5-year-old. “That’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...