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The first Waldorf school opened in 1919 in Stuttgart, Germany. [1] A century later, it has become the largest independent school movement in the world, [2] with more than 1,200 independent schools and nearly 2,000 kindergartens in 75 countries, [3] as well as more than 500 centers for special education in more than 40 countries. [4]
1941 - Kimberton Waldorf School is founded in Pennsylvania. 1942 - High Mowing Waldorf School, a boarding high school in Wilton, New Hampshire opens. 1947 - The Waldorf School of Garden City is created as part of Adelphi University. Three more Waldorf schools were founded in the 1950s, and five in the 1960s.
A 2003 evaluation by education scholars David Jelinek and Li-Ling Sun compared a group of American Waldorf school students to American public school students on three different test variables. [9] Two tests measured verbal and non-verbal logical reasoning and the third was an international TIMMS test.
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The Waldorf Astoria Chicago is located in the Gold Coast, a district that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is also close to Oak Street , which is known for its boutiques, high end jewelry stores, and spas, as well as State Street and Rush Street .
The public schools of Chicago, a sociological study (1897) online; Counts, George S. School and Society in Chicago (1928) online "Free Public Schools of Chicago" Eclectic Journal of Education and Literary Review (January 15, 1851). 2#20 online; Havighurst, Robert J.
Plus, how this type of education differs from regular and Montessori schools.
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is the governing body of the school district that contains over 600 public elementary and high schools citywide, including several selective-admission magnet schools. There are eleven selective enrollment high schools in the Chicago Public Schools, designed to meet the needs of Chicago's most academically advanced ...