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After 1907, Maria Montessori's work spread across the world, attracting the attention of Woodrow Wilson, Alexander Graham Bell and his wife, Mable, and Thomas Edison.
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The Edward Harden Mansion in Sleepy Hollow, NY, home to the first U.S. Montessori school in 1911. -
In early 1914, Maria Montessori was invited to speak in New York at Carnegie hall to a standing-room only audience. -
Montessori was invited to participate in the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, which was in celebration of the opening of the Panama Canal. There, she set up a fully functioning classroom for display to the attendees. American enthusiasm for The Montessori Method was short-lived and all Montessori schools were gone by 1920 -
Nancy McCormick Rambush opens the Whitby School in a Stable belonging to the Terrien family in Greenwich, CT. The school began with 17 students ages 3-7. Nancy was the Headmistress. This sparked a revival of the Montessori Method within the US.
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Nancy Rambusch was appointed, by Mario Montessori, as the American representative of the Association Montessori Internationale. Six months later, Rambusch founded the American Montessori Society- headquartering it at the Whitby School. The American Montessori Society is the largest organization in the world dedicated to the Montessori method with more than 1,300 affiliated school and almost 100 teacher-education programs.
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Sands Montessori, originally located in Mt. Adams, OH, was the first public Montessori school in the United States. The program was designed by Nancy Rambusch. It was called Children's House and opened with an enrollment of 200 students. Sands has a Chinese Sister School; Jing Hang Lu School in Liuzhou City. -
MACTE is a licensure program "committed to the effective preparation of Montessori teachers. Its mission is to recognize, assure, and promote the high quality of that preparation through its system of accreditation for the ultimate purpose of advancing Montessori student learning."
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Launched by AMS in 2012, NCMPS has a mission to build a public Montessori Network with a focus on equity and access. In 2015, they were independently incorporated.
Today, this network includes:
146 Public Schools
1,294 teachers, coaches, leaders
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During the late 90's and early 00's, Montessori was expanding dramatically in the public sector, increasing the need for recognition of the Montessori teaching credential, alignment to state standards, standard program evaluation tools that align with the Montessori model, and an increase in the education of board members and school districts regarding how a fully implemented Montessori classroom operates. MPPI is a joint collaboration of AMS and AMI.
