Joe DiCarlo has long suspected that Montessori schools’ multiage classrooms, student-selected schoolwork, and lack of formal tests or letter grades cultivate students’ academic and social skills ...

The kids who scampered about construction zones in the San Lorenzo slums of Rome gave the work crews fits. Then the builders heard some woman doctor was recruiting students for a new school. They ...

Montessori education at Stonebrook Jacqueline Miller, the head of school for the new Stonebrook Montessori school, talks about what classes at her school in the Glenville neighborhood of Cleveland ...

Prince George is attending a Norfolk nursery inspired by the work of Prof Maria Montessori Prince George's first day at nursery shone a spotlight on a teaching movement unfamiliar to many. But does ...

Grade 12 students Sarah Doucette, left, Erica Somer, Adam Caflisch, Devon Brynell and Jasmine Oh are in the first graduating class for Maria Montessori Academy. Missing from the photo is Teagan ...

ROCKFORD — When she was in sixth grade, Haley Gustafson tried to convince her classmates’ parents that adding a middle-school component to Montessori Private Academy was a wise move. Haley started her ...

Houston — This year at Robert M. Beren Academy, one class of first graders learned the Hebrew blessings recited over different types of food the typical way: with worksheets and a chart on the ...

A doctor before she became an educator, Maria Montessori developed strategies and materials that, a century later, are being adopted by more and more classrooms (such as this one in Landover, Maryland ...