Maria Montessori stood before a crowd of 60 underprivileged children, her students. It was January 6, 1907, and the 36-year-old educator was opening her first school: the Casa dei Bambini, or ...

Few educators have had as lasting of an impact as Maria Montessori - an Italian physician and educator who opened her first classroom in Rome in 1907. Her unique teaching philosophy "was based on ...

Yet only now is the Montessori method being tried on the gravest problem facing big-city educators in the U.S. Recalling that Maria Montessori formed her educational concepts teaching 60 slum ...

The Montessori method of child education encourages independent, child-centered learning for ages 3 to 12. Read about the key principles, how it looks, and more.

Diane Bauso, head of school for Creative Minds Montessori School in Auburn, writes about what's new there and how it relates to the Montessori method of education.

Tech geniuses, nation builders and famous artists have praised the benefits of a Montessori education – but does it hold up to scientific scrutiny?

Indie Sales has closed a raft of major deals on ‘‘Maria Montessori," a film starring Italian actress Jasmine Trinca as Maria Montessori.

It’s been more than 100 years since Dr. Maria Montessori first developed the Montessori method of education, which focuses on building children’s resourcefulness and natural abilities through ...

When Maria Montessori began to develop her pathbreaking teaching method in the early decades of the 20th century, she perhaps did not visualise what would happen in the world in a hundred years — and ...