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Aflame

A Columbia, SC, independent Montessori school is bouncing back from a devastating arson fire Nov. 14.


AMS, NCME to Merge

The boards of the American Montessori (AMS) and the National Center for Montessori Education (NCME) with come together.


'Reasonably Successful' : Survey Finds Public Programs Struggling But Optimistic

By Angela K. Murray

Public Montessori elementary schools are in a unique position today: striving to achieve a child-centered Montessori environment fostering freedom with responsibility, while simultaneously addressing the demands of state and federal requirements devised around more traditional educational settings.

Puerto Rican Passions: CMTE-NY Is a Partner in an Ambitious 'Fairy Tale' Initiative

By Michael Duffy and Robyn Breiman

This is a real-life fairy tale.
A collective of public schools in Puerto Rico has launched a bold experiment to bring Montessori education to the children of San Juan and surrounding communities.


A Hurricane of Compassion

Houston Montessori Center Leads the National Montessori Effort to Help Victims of Hurricane, And More


Ft. Wayne Refining Plan to Expand Montessori Program

By Mark Anderson

At a time when many public Montessori programs are straining under new standardized testing and curriculum requirements, the Ft. Wayne, Ind. school district is taking a different approach. Rather than curtail its Montessori program, Ft. Wayne decided to double its size and increase spending on Montessori teacher training as part of its strategy for school improvement.


Early Childhood Leaders (Without Montessorians) Criticize U.S. Policy

More than 60 of high-profile figures in child development, psychology, pediatrics, and mental health issued a statement Dec. 6 challenging state and federal policies toward early childhood education that place overwhelming emphasis on academic skills.


Buffalo Announces Expansion Plan

Buffalo will expand its Montessori program as part of a comprehensive initiative to reverse a dramatic decline in student enrollment.

Field Notes

Assorted news from around the nation.



SPECIAL SECTION: The Tao of Montessori

Sacred Struggles of the Montessori Teacher: An Interview With Catherine McTamaney, Author of the Tao of Montessori

Catherine McTamaney, a Montessori teacher and writer, has completed a remarkable book: The Tao of Montessori. In it she links the 81 verses of Lao-tzu's 25-century old Tao Te Ching with short essays on her life as a Montessori classroom teacher. The result is a series of meditations on the teacher's craft that will bring a knowing smile to the face of most Montessori teachers and those who appreciate them.


A chapter from Catherine McTamaney's The Tao of Montessori


SPECIAL SECTION: No Child Left Behind

Get Those Scores Up: Three Tales of Working to Prevent NCLB Sanctions

By Mark Anderson

The stated goal of No Child Left Behind is that literally, no child should fail due to the absence of good, educational attention from school and family.


AMI Teachers Offer Support in Meeting Demands

About 40 public Montessori educators affiliated with AMI-USA gathered in Milwaukee in early November to discuss the challenges they face.


NCLB Watch: LOOKING BACK IN SADNESS

By Diane Butler

I read the articles written by former public school Montessori teachers with great interest, since I am one also. My recent three-year stint in a public Montessori program left me nearly brokenhearted.


NCLB Watch: CHARTERS AND INTEGRITY

By Margaret Lessenger

Parents of public Montessori students need to take a more active role.
If there had been pressure from more parents for more authentic Montessori it would have made a huge difference in our district.


NCLB Watch: CHARTERS AND INTEGRITY

By Michelle Hammons

Public School Montessorian (Fall 2005) contained a discussion of the viability of Montessori education in the public sector. It left me with two thoughts on the subject: Not only is PUBLIC Montessori education viable, but it is becoming almost a necessity in the success of public education as a whole


NCLB Watch: LIVING WITH TESTING

By Donna Looze

Since I teach in a public school I am well versed in NCLB. I teach a pre-K through K program. We have 2 classrooms with 2 sessions each per day. We were founded in the early 1960's (records seem to have disappeared from our school district's offices as to the exact date).


NCLB Watch: LIVING WITH TESTING

By John R. Snyder

I don't wish to speak for anyone else, but I believe the issue is this: in an authentic Montessori Children's House (and to a great extent in the Elementary), the children work from joy, from innate wonder, and from the internal urgings of their sensitive periods.


NCLB Watch: LOOKING BACK IN SADNESS

By Nancy Haynes

We have studied Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech many times over the years. How appropriate it seems now. My students and I are free of the No Child Left Behind Act. Last summer I made the choice to leave public school Montessori, after 20 years, for private.


NCLB Watch: LIVING WITH TESTING

By Kimberly Yash

I taught for the past three years in a Public School with quarterly benchmark testing. I did not agree with using a child's test results as the sole indication of their progress in school. However, the reality was that the state used the tests in that way.

SPECIAL SECTION: News from the Associations

'Montessori Initiative' Taking Shape

A magazine and a school referral program are poised to begin in early 2006 according to the organizer of The Montessori Initiative, a multi-facet public outreach program started by the American Montessori Society (AMS) but open to other Montessori schools.


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