The Montessori education has defined their commitment to promoting quality Montessori education for all children – age 18 down to birth. Their philosophy defines learning as knowledge which is developed in an inquiring, cooperative, and a nurturing read more
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Nancy L. Young-Houser
Category: Education > Progressive, Changes
When I first heard of the Montessori School while living in Wyoming, I was absolutely fascinated with the idea behind it. Twenty years later, I am still fascinated at the idea of an educational environment which offers students the ability to read more
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Nancy L. Young-Houser
Category: Education > Progressive, Changes
Located in Tamil Nadu, India, the Transition School has served the community of Auroville well since 1984. Referred to as the "City of Dawn", it was developed in 1968 as an experimental township in the Viluppuram district near Puducherry, read more
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Nancy L. Young-Houser
Category: Education > Progressive, Changes
Washington's Transition School and Early Entrance Program have provided a way for gifted children to accelerate, preventing them from abandoning their intellectual pursuits and failing because of individual at-risk difficulties. Today there are read more
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Nancy L. Young-Houser
Category: Education > Progressive, Changes
The only way inclusion can be fully achieved is when the child belongs to their class as an active participation, attempting to do better and "belong" as compared to simply accepting what is available. Adaptations that are made around the child read more
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Nancy L. Young-Houser
Category: Education > Progressive, Changes
In a March 10 speech, President Obama endorsed using updated data systems “to tell us which students had which teachers so we can assess what’s working and what’s not.” With Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association read more
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Nancy L. Young-Houser
Category: Education > Progressive, Changes
... neurologists are now prescribing music for health conditions like Parkinson's, stroke, Alzheimer's, and depression, with additional studies finding out that things like music lessons are providing a beneficial workout for the brain. Not only read more
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Nancy L. Young-Houser
Category: Education > Music Education
A digital native is referred to as a individual who has grown up exposed from birth or a very young age to the Internet, compared to a digital immigrant who grew up without the Internet acquiring its knowledge at a later date. And according read more
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Nancy L. Young-Houser
Category: Education > Progressive, Changes
NASA Center is approaching this recession and global crisis by becoming part of a new type of school for meta-thinkers, a recession which is confounding governments and businesses all over the world. The school meanwhile is offering a fundamental read more
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Nancy L. Young-Houser
Category: Education > College University
In today's times, money is not only tight it may not be available at all in an upcoming recession, or even in a possible depression. What we need to remember is that knowledge is power, and we need to keep learning and obtaining information to read more
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Nancy L. Young-Houser
Category: Education > Online Education