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Montessori visit US
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The Glass Classroom & National Education Association speaking engagement
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1920s-1940s World Wars and Educational Detractors dismiss Montessori's Method and Philosophy
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1950s: Climate is right for a change in traditional American Education
-Progressive Education Movement-whole child education
-Church vs. State funding debate
-Desegregation "separate is unequal"
-Sputnik fear American Education had fallen behind
-Post WWII Baby Boomers needed schools -
Small Montessori schools start to emerge
Elizabeth Caspari opens Wee Wisdom Montessori school in Unity Village, MO -
Nancy McCormick Rambusch travels to Paris to attend a Montessori Congress and learn more.
-She meet Mario Montessori, Maria’s son, who encouraged her to bring Montessori back to the U.S. -
Nancy McCormick Rambusch open the Whitby School
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The American Montessori Society is born in a small New York Apartment
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Montessori Education Flourishes in the US!
Montessori in the Public Sector report more than 5000 Montessori Schools in the US with 500 in public schools
