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 ...

The primary focus of the Montessori method is a child-centered developmental approach to education, says Sara Suchman, a Montessori educator and NCMPS's executive director. "Dr. Montessori ...

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 Child Is the Teacher: A Life of Maria Montessori, by Cristina De Stefano, Other Press, 248 pages, $28.99 Maria Montessori's ideas about education stem from the principles of choice, individual ...

The Montessori method of education is known for promoting the autonomy of children and de-emphasizing the influence of teachers, so it’s striking that its creator was such an authoritarian.

“The child, a free human being, must teach us and teach society order, calm, discipline, and harmony,” Montessori wrote. In some ways, the engine of her method was paradox: order is freedom ...

The Montessori educational method, which began in 1907 as an experimental way to teach working-class children in Rome, celebrated its centenary Jan. 6. Italian doctor Maria Montessori pioneered ...

Parents, educators and politicians are concerned about our preschool youth. All parents want the best for their children but why is choosing a good preschool so important now? "Research indicates ...