Word: montessori
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...good news and bad news, graduates. Remember back in 1991, when you were about 4 years old and your parents were driving you from Montessori to tot-aerobics class? Mozart was on the car stereo, stimulating your little brain. And Mom explained that your future was all laid out. Your strong preschool record had placed you into a grade-school gifted-and-talented program, which, with hard work, would lead to the Advanced Placement curriculum in high school. That--plus captaincy of the lacrosse team, strong test scores and a record of eco-conscious community activism--would lead to college...
Simmons cited increased enrollment, greater diversity among employees, the new Montessori school at the Tobin, and increases on standardized tests as major accomplishments during Fowler-Finn’s tenure...
...teachers to diversify their teaching. “Now that the standards are pretty well known in the schools, we need to get teachers more involved in innovating,” she said. The Cambridge Public Schools district has already taken steps to explore alternative educational methods. A Montessori program—which focuses on self-directed activity—is in its first year at the John M. Tobin School and the possibility of an International Baccalaureate program at the high school was up for serious discussion at a roundtable this month. Fowler-Finn said he feels that...
...response to input from parents and administrators, Tobin started a Montessori program this year, emphasizing self-directed activity on the part of students. Maher says that enrollment at the school reversed its downward trend and increased to the point that there is now a waiting list...
...David B. Harris, the head of Cambridge Montessori School, an elementary school, says he finds Harvard an odd target...