Language: English

ISSN: 1071-6246

Abstract/Notes: Objectives. To evaluate trends in rates of personal belief exemptions (PBEs) to immunization requirements for private kindergartens in California that practice alternative educational methods. Methods. We used California Department of Public Health data on kindergarten PBE rates from 2000 to 2014 to compare annual average increases in PBE rates between schools. Results. Alternative schools had an average PBE rate of 8.7%, compared with 2.1% among public schools. Waldorf schools had the highest average PBE rate of 45.1%, which was 19 times higher than in public schools (incidence rate ratio = 19.1; 95% confidence interval = 16.4, 22.2). Montessori and holistic schools had the highest average annual increases in PBE rates, slightly higher than Waldorf schools (Montessori: 8.8%; holistic: 7.1%; Waldorf: 3.6%). Conclusions. Waldorf schools had exceptionally high average PBE rates, and Montessori and holistic schools had higher annual increases in PBE rates. Children in these schools may be at higher risk for spreading vaccine-preventable diseases if trends are not reversed.

Language: English

DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303498

ISSN: 0090-0036, 1541-0048

Abstract/Notes: Administrator retirement

Language: English

ISSN: 1071-6246

Abstract/Notes: "Dr. Maria Montessori Here. Teacher of "Sense System" to Instruct in California. Dr. Maria Montessori, exponent of the "sense system" of teaching, arrived yesterday with her cousin, Mario Montesano, on board the Italian steamship Duca degli Abruzzi, from Naples, and was met at the pier by American exponents of her method, Miss Anne E. George of Washington, Miss Clara Craig of Providence, Miss Adelia Pyle of Manhattan, and Miss Grace Parsons of Brooklyn. She will spend four months in America, mostly in California, where she is going at the request of the California Board of Education to instruct a class of teachers. Dr. Montessori said that, contrary to the general impression, the war had stimulated in Italy a desire for education. She did not believe in war, but she was glad it had some redeeming feature. Mrs. Catalina Basusus, whose husband was Mexican Ambassador to the United States under Diaz, also was a passenger by the Duca degli Abruzzi. She met Diaz at his villa in the lower Pyrnees. He was in fine health and said he would never return to Mexico or visit the United States."

Language: English

ISSN: 1940-7831

Abstract/Notes: "Faculty – The Montessori Institute — Dottoressa Maria Montessori and Assistants" ... "The Montessori Institute – During the month of July, San Diego is to receive and entertain as an honored guest of the city, the Exposition and the schools of the city, the famous Dottoressa Maria Montessori, who will bring for that month, her private class in Montessori methods now organized in Los Angeles, and which is not open to other Summer School students. In addition to this private class, there will be on the Exposition grounds, a Montessori demonstration school of children, which will be open for daily observation by all students registered for the summer session. Students will thus be able to get at first hand the Montessori methods and principles."

Language: English

Abstract/Notes: Mme. Montessori, the noted Italian educator, is in Pasadena to conduct training classes in kindergarten work.

Language: English

Abstract/Notes: Announcement was made here yesterday that Mme. Montessori will give a three-month national Montessori course in California during June, July and August. The course will deal with the education of children between six and ten years old. Primary teachers are to be accepted. Miss Adelia McAlpin Pyle is to be interpreter. Mme. Montessori has appointed Miss Katherine Moore, 2003 South Grand avenue, Los Angeles, Cal., as organizer of the course.

Language: English

Abstract/Notes: "...The last day we saw the most interesting things of all. One was an institution which is the only one of its kind in the world. It is called Boyland, and is being built by a wealthy man who has original ideas about educating boys. One thing he is making is a map of the world right outdoors. In a circle a quarter of a mile around they are building the continents and islands of the world. North and South America and many islands are completed and they are working on the other continents. When the land is finished, the water for oceans, lakes and rivers will be turned on and fas jets lighted to represent volcanos. It is perfectly wonderful. They are building a beautiful, large house of Moorish architecture which will contain dormitories, dining rooms, class rooms, and all under one root. And all is so high that a beautiful view of city, hills and ocean is spread out before you..."

Language: English

Abstract/Notes: Maria Montessori’s visit to California in 1915—her second visit to the United States—coincided with multiple events in the region: San Francisco’s Panama–Pacific International Exposition (PPIE), San Diego’s Panama–California Exposition (PCE), and the National Education Association of the United States (NEA) annual meeting in Oakland. Her visit also came at a time when the American Montessori movement was splintering, and the academic elite increasingly criticized her educational model. These circumstances made Montessori’s visit to California a potentially valuable opportunity to rekindle interest in Montessori education across the United States. Discussions of Montessori’s visit in 1915 have been framed around her training course and demonstration school at the PPIE. Based on information from primary sources (e.g., newspapers and archival materials), some of which have been overlooked, this article asserts that her visit to California had broader implications. While her eight months in California did have a positive impact on the growth of the Montessori movement, Montessori’s engagement with mainstream education had limited impact and it gave way to waning interest in Montessori education in the United States.

Language: English

DOI: 10.17161/jomr.v9i2.21042

ISSN: 2378-3923

Language: English