Ages: 18 months old—6th grade. Tuition: $28,530 (half-day Young Children’s Community), $37,600 (full-day, 8:15 AM-3 PM, Young Children’s Community), $48,730 (all-day, 8:15-5, Young Children’s ...

Few educators have had as lasting of an impact as Maria Montessori - an Italian physician and educator who opened her first classroom in Rome in 1907. Her unique teaching philosophy "was based on her ...

When Patty Eggerding was first hired at West Suburban Montessori School in Oak Park, she brought up the possibility of adding an elementary program to the school. Almost four years later, Eggerding, ...

Students enrolled in the Montessori program at New York Elementary School work on activities. When Superintendent Anthony Lewis was first toying with the idea of a public Montessori school in Lawrence ...