Research and Articles on Development and Learning.

Bank Street College: Maximizing Every Child's Potential in the First 1,000 Days of Life: A Landscape Analysis.   Bank Street College released a new report entitled  "Maximizing Every Child's Potential in the First 1,000 Days of Life: A Landscape Analysis"  as part of their effort to uncover the greatest opportunities for supporting infants and toddlers. In developing the report, the authors interviewed more than 65 thought leaders in the field, including staff from the Trust. The publication includes findings, supporting evidence, and bright spots for: - Deepening expertise and promoting practices that most effectively foster child development; - Adequately compensating and creating supports for early childhood educators; - Strengthening systems to sustainably support children, families, and educators; and - Generating public will to drive these changes Click to read.

The Pink Tower Meets the Ivory Tower: Adapting Montessori Teaching Methods for Law School.  Read article.

Awareness of Parents about Montessori Education: a Sample of Ankara & Seattle.  Education Reform Journal, 3.2, 2018.  Read article.

National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector, "Growth of Public Montessori in the United States: 1975-2014"  Click to read.

National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector "Does it Work?  Recent Research on Montessori Outcomes"  Read article.

Racial and Economic Diversity in U.S. Public Montessori Schools, by Dr. Mira Debs.  Read article.

From Forbes.com " The Montessori Comeback ," March 27, 2019.  " Yale University’s  Dr. Mira Debs researches public Montessori  programs and compiled a  dataset of these freestanding schools .   Nearly 100%  are schools of choice that use a lottery system to determine which students get in.    And of the 168 freestanding public Montessori schools opened between 2000 and 2015, 82% were public charter schools."    View list.

The Importance of Touch in Development.  Click to read .

Project-Based Learning in Teaching with the DAF Montessori Method.  Read article .

Results of Learning Activities of Grade 1 Thai Language Subjects Using the Project-Based Approach.  Read article.

Outcomes of children receiving Group-Early Start Denver Model in an inclusive versus autism-specific setting: A pilot randomized controlled trial.  Access article.

Evaluating Montessori Education by Angeline Lillard and Nicole Else-Quest.  An analysis of students' academic and social scores compares a Montessori school with other elementary school education programs.  Read article.  

2019 Research Brief from NC Early Childhood Foundation: Opportunity for All?  North Carolina's Babies and Toddlers of Color.  Read report.

Digitization and Divergence: Online School Ratings and Segregation in America.  Read article. Abstract:   We analyze whether widespread online access to school quality information affected economic and social segregation in America. We leverage the staged roll-out of GreatSchools.org school ratings across America from 2006-2015 to answer this question. Across a range of outcomes and specifications, we find that the mass availability of school ratings has accelerated divergence in housing values, income distributions, education levels, as well as the racial and ethnic composition across communities. Affluent and more educated families were better positioned to leverage this new information to capture educational opportunities in communities with the best schools. An unintended consequence of better information was less, rather than more, equity in education.

Spontaneous Activity in Education by Maria Montessori.  Project Gutenberg, 2008.  Click to read.

Maria Montessori's Cosmic Vision, Cosmic Plan, and Cosmic Education by Camillo Grazzini.  NAMTA Journal, 2013.    Click to read.

To Educate the Human Potential by Maria Montessori.  Kalakshetra Publications, Madras, India, 1956.    Click to read.

The Absorbent Mind by Maria Montessori.  Click to view .

Autonomy Building Through Peer Tutoring: Second Language Students Engage in Literacy Learning by Joanne Kingsley, Bishop's University.    Click to view article.

Supporting Children Learning English as an Additional Language by The Department for Children, Schools and Families, 2017.  Click to view article.

Less-structured time in children's daily lives predicts self-directed executive functioning.  Click to view article.

Early Social-Emotional Functioning and Public Health: The Relationship Between Kindergarten Social Competence and Future Wellness.  Read article.

Examining the Montessori Lower Elementary Education as Pedagogy for Peace: A Study of an Alternative Framework to Address Bullying in Schools.  Continue reading.

When learning a foreign language, students should get as much exposure to the target language as possible.   Continue reading.

Emotions are an indispensable part of second language learning.   Continue reading.

A body of research has shown that self-regulation and language learning strategies are important variables influencing learning.   Continue reading.

Currently, there is a shift in language learning from the 'acquisition' metaphor to the 'participation' metaphor. Continue reading.

A field experiment examined whether increasing opportunities for face-to-face interaction while eliminating the use of screen-based media and communication tools improved nonverbal emotion–cue recognition in preteens.   Continue reading.

Putting a halt to the rising trend in overweight prevalence has high priority in public health policy all over the developed world. Prevention, preferably starting at an early age, is considered as the key strategy to achieve this goal, and considerable effort is put into the design of preventive measures. Continue reading.

Positive greetings at the door: Evaluation of a low-cost, high-yield proactive classroom management strategy. Externalizing behavior is a significant concern among teachers.  Continue to Abstract.

This study sought to investigate whether washing dishes could be used as an informal contemplative practice, promoting the state of mindfulness along with attendant emotional and attentional phenomena. Continue to Abstract .

Gallup developed this research study of K-12 superintendents of U.S. public school districts to understand their opinions on important topics and policy issues facing elementary and secondary education.  Continue reading.

In a world first, breakthrough research has shown that toddlers with autism are just as capable of learning important life skills through early-intervention delivered in mainstream pre-schools as in specialized settings.   Continue reading. 

Over the past 15 years, the share of 4-year-olds who are U.S. residents attending public preschool has more than doubled to 33 percent.   Continue reading.  

This report summarizes a comprehensive research program undertaken by the Trust for Learning to provide insight into how and why parents make choices about their children’s early childhood development from birth through age five.  Continue reading.  

Quality preschool programs that develop the whole child through age-appropriate socioemotional and cognitive skill-building hold promise for significantly improving child outcomes.   Continue reading.

There is much debate in the literature and in the world of teachers and parents as to the most effective way of building young children’s social capacity: laissez faire, authoritarian or authoritative.  Continue reading.

Several educational methods are used in building up children; each has different settings accordingly different requirements.  Continue reading.

Montessori metod is an education program which is comed about and developed spontaneously and intends to gives children an opportunity to be able to improve themselves and to have freedom of movement and activity in a prepaned environment [sic]. Continue reading.

This paper aims at investigating the pedagogy of the AUA Pre-school English program from the perspective of Montessori Method.  Continue reading.

For hundreds of years, there has been much kind of philosophies on education, based on various models of study.  Continue reading.

The purpose of this research is to investigate the impact of the Montessori approach on the IQ of 5-year old children. Continue reading.

The stimulating learning environment in the period when Comenius wrote his Didactica Magna (Great Didactic), or when Maria Montessori came up with her original pedagogical concept, greatly differed from the stimulating learning environment at the beginning of this century. Continue reading.

Reading is a multisensory task requiring audiovisual integration of printed characters and speech sounds.  Continue reading.

Assessments have been made of 153 classrooms in 27 schools in order to identify the impact of the physical classroom features on the academic progress of the 3766 pupils who occupied each of those specific spaces.  Continue reading.

By 2016, around half of all Millennial women were moms, and each year more than one million more become mothers.  Continue reading.

Younger children in a school grade cohort may be more likely to receive a diagnosis of attention deficit–hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) than their older peers because of age-based variation in behavior that may be attributed to ADHD rather than to the younger age of the children. Continue reading.

New scientific research shows that environmental influences can actually affect whether and how genes are expressed.  Continue reading.

The dual nature of early-life experience on somatosensory processing in the human infant brain    Continue reading.