No Tests, No Grades. Roughly 300 public schools in the U.S. follow the teaching principles developed almost 100 years ago by Italian physician and educator Maria Montessori.

Two main tenets of a Montessori education are mixed-age classrooms and no grades or homework. At Montessori schools, younger children have long blocks of time—up to three hours at once—to ...

But many Montessori schools are fee-paying, and the parents' choice may be related to many other confounding factors that could also influence a child's progress. It's not just the parents' wealth ...

The “Pioneer Schools” impact index on the quality of education places Morocco at forefront of the world rankings in this field, Minister of National Education, Preschool and Sports, Mohamed ...

To test their hypothesis, the researchers recruited 1,905 U.S. adults who attended Montessori or conventional schools, ranging in age from 18 to 81, and had them complete a series of well-being ...

Of the more than 500 public Montessori schools nationwide, more than half have been opened in the last 15 years. But there has been less evidence on the effectiveness of the model, ...