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A wealth of Montessori information at your fingertips – books, videos, websites, and articles.

Books

These books can be found at most public libraries and bookstores. While this isn’t a complete list, it’s a collection of titles we’ve found especially helpful in deepening our understanding of child development and the Montessori philosophy.

Books About Montessori Education

Montessori Today: A Comprehensive Approach to Education from Birth to Adulthood – Paula Polk Lillard
Montessori: The Science Behind the Genius – Angeline Stoll Lillard
Montessori Madness! – Trevor Eissler
A Parent’s Guide to the Montessori Classroom – Aline D. Wolf
To Educate the Human Potential – Maria Montessori

Books About Parenting and Education

Montessori From the Start – Paula Polk Lillard & Lynn Lillard Jessen
Living Simply with Children – Marie Sherlock
Endangered Minds – Jane Healy
Punished by Rewards – Alfie Kohn
Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
Siblings Without Rivalry – Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
Between Parent and Child – Dr. Haim G. Ginott, Alice Ginott & H. Goddard

Videos

Trevor Eissler, Montessori parent, offers a parent-to-parent argument for Montessori education.

The TED Conference hears from Google’s co-founders about how Montessori helped create their mammoth success.

Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

An animated version of Ken Robinson’s follow-up talk about Changing Education Paradigms.

Articles

How do Innovators Think?

A recent article in Harvard Business Review discusses innovative entrepreneurs vs. average executives.
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How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century

A Time Magazine report.
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The Montessori Mafia

From the Wall Street Journal.
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Evaluating Montessori Education

Groundbreaking study by Angeline Lillard, published in Science Magazine.
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Ten Reasons People Still Need Cursive.

While some argue cursive writing belongs in the archives and Common Core ushers it out of schools, the evidence shows we need it as much as ever.
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