Racial tensions fuel the fiery debate over a North Charleston Montessori program
The Montessori program, based on the methods that teacher Maria Montessori developed to teach poor students in a Rome tenement building in the early 20th century, offers individually tailored lesson plans in a unique classroom environment with few …
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Alternative education in Hong Kong
One of these is Gaia School, an alternative primary school in Tuen Mun set up by nature-loving teachers in 2007, which has since added a kindergarten and plans to start a secondary section in 2015. Executive councillor Bernard Chan and his wife Yeo …
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Bilingual Island of Learning
President Barack Obama's comprehensive education plan Race to the Top reiterates the central tenet of President Bush's No Child Left Behind: The best way to gauge our collective educational progress is by rigorous, annual testing, even for children as …
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