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

Language: English

ISSN: 0889-5643

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: Members of the Women's Board will entertain with a reception and tea at the women's headquarters in the California building at the park, complimentary to Dr. Maria Montessori, the Italian educator. The reception will be held at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon. Miss Adelia Pyle will serve as interpreter for Dr. Montessori. During the reception the guest of honor will give a short talk in which she will present some of the principles of pedagogy on which her system is founded. There are now some [40?] members of the Montessori classes which are being held in the Science of Man building. Dr. Montessori lectures Monday and Friday afternoons, her interpreter speaks on Wednesday afternoon, and review work is given Saturday afternoon. The course of lectures will continue through August.

Language: English

Abstract/Notes: New York, April 20 — Maria Montessori, originator of the teaching method bearing her name, arrived here yesterday on the Duca Degli Abruzzi, to stay four months in this country. She was accompanied by her young cousin, Mario Montesano. The educator will leave here for California, where she has been engaged by the state board of education to instruct a class of teachers in her methods.

Language: English

Language: English

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. Maria Montessori, the eminent Italian pedagogue, was given the use of the Assembly Hall for the first of a series of lectures to parents and teachers on August 5." -- p. 60.

Language: English

Published: Boston, Massachusetts: Wright & Potter, 1916

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