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  2. Montessori in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Also in 1963, the Cambridge Montessori School was founded in the basement of St. Bartholomew Church in Cambridge, MA, enrolling 50 students. In 1961, Mario Montessori, head of the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI), sent Stephenson as his personal representative to the United States, and was later given his permission to established a ...

  3. Nancy McCormick Rambusch - Wikipedia

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    Nancy McCormick Rambusch (April 29, 1927 – October 27, 1994) was an American educator who founded the American Montessori Society in 1960. [1] The founder of the Whitby School , Rambusch served as a leading proponent of Montessori education in the United States, writing and lecturing widely.

  4. American Montessori Society - Wikipedia

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    In 1958, they founded Whitby School—the first Montessori school to open in the United States since the initial flurry of interest in the early 20th century. The board selected Rambusch as head of school. [4] Rambusch was appointed the American representative of the Association Montessori Internationale by Mario Montessori. Six months later ...

  5. Association Montessori International of the United States

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    As the movement grew, Montessori granted her request to set up a branch office of AMI in the United States. AMI/USA was founded in 1972 and directed for its first ten years by Karin Salzmann. In 1988, Virginia McHugh succeeded Jon Osterkorn as Executive Director of AMI/USA. Today there are over 200 AMI schools across the United States.

  6. Maria Montessori - Wikipedia

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    Montessori societies were founded in the United States (the Montessori American Committee) and the United Kingdom (the Montessori Society for the United Kingdom). [41] In 1913 the first International Training Course was held in Rome, with a second in 1914. [42] Montessori's work was widely translated and published during this period.

  7. Marva Collins - Wikipedia

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    Marva Delores Collins (née Knight; August 31, 1936 – June 24, 2015) was an American educator.Collins is best known for creating Westside Preparatory School, a widely acclaimed private elementary school in the impoverished Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, which opened in 1975.

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  9. History of African-American education - Wikipedia

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    After the turn of the 20th century, black men and women also began to found their own college fraternities and sororities to create additional networks for lifelong service and collaboration. For example, Alpha Phi Alpha the first black intercollegiate fraternity was founded at Cornell University in 1906. [32]