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Books
These books are available in most libraries and bookstores. This is not a comprehensive list but rather a suggested list of references we have found valuable to our understanding of the growth and development of children and the Montessori Method.
Books About Montessori Education
- Montessori Today, A Comprehensive Approach to Education from Birth to Adulthood, Paula Polk Lillard
- Montessori: The Science Behind the Genius, Angelene Stoll Lillard
- Montessori Madness!, Trevor Eissler
- A Parent’s Guide to the Montessori Classroom, Aline D. Wolf
- To Educate the Human Potential, Maria Montessori
- The Absorbent Mind, Maria Montessori
Books About Parenting and Education
- Montessori From the Start, Paula Polk Lillard and Lynn Lillard Jessen
- Endangered Minds, Jane Healy
- Siblings Without Rivalry, Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
- Between Parent and Child,
Dr. Haim G. Ginott, Alice Ginott, and H.
Goddard
Videos
Trevor Eissler, Montessori parent, offers a parent-to-parent argument for Montessori education.
The TED Conference hears from Google’s co-founders about how Montessori helped create their mammoth success.
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
An animated version of Ken Robinson's follow-on talk about Changing Education Paradigms.
Articles
How do Innovators Think?
A recent article in the
Harvard Business Review discusses innovative entrepreneurs vs. average executives.
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How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century
A
Time Magazine report.
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The Montessori Mafia
From the
Wall Street Journal.
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Evaluating Montessori Education
A groundbreaking study by Angeline Lillard, published in
Science Magazine.
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Ten Reasons People Still Need Cursive.
While some argue that cursive writing belongs in the archives and Common Core ushers it out of schools, the evidence shows that we need it as much as ever.
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Websites
Association Montessori Internationale (AMI) is the original organization to promote the ideas and principles of Dr. Maria Montessori, both training teachers and accrediting schools. Association Montessori Internationale / USA is AMI's branch office in the United States.
amiusa.org
Aid to Life offers clear, simple, straightforward parenting advice that is easy to understand and most importantly easy to apply.
aidtolife.org