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If you read my blog posts, you know I support public education. You may have also gleaned that I believe in the public Montessoris in Milwaukee. Not only is Milwaukee's group of public Montessoris a one of a kind in the U.S. – I believe no other public district has as many of them – but they work. Read more here. It may seem like a laughable “only in New York” story that Manhattan mother, Nicole Imprescia, is suing her 4-year-old daughter’s untraditional private preschool for failing to prepare her for a private school admissions exam. But her daughter’s future and ours might be much brighter with a little less conditioning to perform well on tests and more encouragement to discover as they teach in Montessori schools. Ironically, the Montessori educational approach might be the surest route to joining the creative elite, which are so overrepresented by the school’s alumni that one might suspect a Montessori Mafia: Google’s founders Larry Page and Sergei Brin, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, videogame pioneer Will Wright, and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, not to mention Julia Child and rapper Sean “P.Diddy” Combs. Last Updated (Sunday, 15 May 2011 13:56) |
MINNEAPOLIS — A principal in the Minneapolis public schools has been honored as Minnesota's 2011 National Distinguished Principal by the U.S. Department of Education. Read more here. Last Updated (Sunday, 15 May 2011 13:54) A new private high school is emerging in Central Maui. Called Global Technology High School, the new school will be established in a commercial building in Kahului where the academic philosophies and curriculum of a Montessori education will be incorporated with the use of multimedia technology. Go to article. |
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