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Will the real Montessori please stand up?

The Hechinger Report

Foster’s experience in finding a “Montessori school” that didn’t actually adhere to Montessori ideals is not unique. It was revitalized during the 1960s and grew quickly after one of the nation’s Montessori schools was featured in a Time magazine article titled “The Joy of Learning.” See if you can do it vertical,” said his teacher.

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If schools don’t overhaul discipline, ‘teachers will still be calling the police on our Black students’

The Hechinger Report

Federal grants , such as the “COPS in Schools” program, helped place thousands of officers in schools, with the number of school resource officers topping 46,000 in 2007-08. As of 2017-18, just about half of all public schools in the U.S. reported having at least one sworn law enforcement officer on campus.