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The Montessori community does not have any central authority. AMI (Association Montessori Internationale) is the body that Maria Montessori founded in 1929, and of which she remained founder president until her death in 1952. Her son Mario Montessori was general director of AMI until his death in 1982.
Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori (/ ˌ m ɒ n t ɪ ˈ s ɔːr i / MON-tiss-OR-ee; Italian: [maˈriːa montesˈsɔːri]; 31 August 1870 – 6 May 1952) was an Italian physician and educator best known for her philosophy of education (the Montessori method) and her writing on scientific pedagogy.
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.
A 2006 study found that Montessori education, when implemented faithfully, fostered social and academic skills that were equal to or superior to those seen in other types of schools. [53] A study in 2007 in Milwaukee Public Schools found that students who had attended Montessori from ages 3 to 11 outperformed their high school classmates in ...
Montessori High School at University Circle (also known as MHS) was a private high school located in the University Circle neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio.The school opened August 2008 as the first private high school in the United States with the Montessori name, [1] and was the first Montessori high school to offer boarding for international and U.S. students.
Fortune magazine reported Musk’s Ad Astra school can begin teaching students 3 to 9 years old with a STEM-based curriculum. Elon Musk to open a private school in Texas town where SpaceX, Tesla ...
A new Montessori school is opening outside of Austin, backed by Elon Musk. The Tesla CEO cofounded the school, which will open on a 40-acre property in Bastrop, Texas, that used to be a horse ranch.
Rambusch founded the Whitby School in Greenwich, Connecticut, and served as its first headmistress from 1958 to 1962. [3] The establishment of the Whitby School sparked a large-scale revival of Montessori education in the United States. [4] Rambusch founded the American Montessori Society (AMS) in 1960, headquartering the society at the school.