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The educational charity Every Child a Chance Trust has commissioned a report prepared by KPMG, which says that 30,000 children leave primary school each year unable to do simple calculations....

In the early spring of 2009, several news reports proclaimed about the innovation of the ‘stand-up desk’, the desk that allows school children to stand while they work. The desks...

Movement and Learning Long before modern day research ‘discovered’ that active movement (as opposed to the passive movement of being pushed in a pram, being placed in a cot or...

The introduction of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) has created an opportunity for a new relationship between the Montessori movement in the UK and those academics, policy makers and...

The recent claims that ‘synthetic phonics’ hold the key to transforming literacy levels in the UK is far from news to those familiar with the approach to language found in...

Angeline Lillard, Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia and author of the award winning book Montessori: The Science Behind the Genius writes about the preponderance of non Montessori...

This is an excerpt from a lecture given by Irene Fafalios at the Montessori Society AGM in London What do we mean by bilingualism? Simply defined a bilingual person would...

Parents today are inundated with media and written materials designed to support them in their role as parents. Many of them are keen to learn the ‘right’ things to do...

We’ve all faced the seduction of the educational software advert that promises to transform our children into technically savvy adults: ‘At Leapfrog we believe that kids don’t just grow up,...

A reflection by Kristin McAlister Young on the word “Sadhana”, the topic for the 26th International Montessori Conference in Chennai, India. Sadhana: “The mind and body coming together to perform...