On the show today are Angeline Lillard and Justus Randolph, two research professors who recently found some impressive results for children in Montessori school vs traditional school.
Contact info
Angeline Lillard: https://psychology.as.virginia.edu/lillard
Justus Randolph: https://nursing.mercer.edu/faculty-and-staff/justus-randolph
Studies mentioned
The Montessori meta-analysis discussed at length in our conversation: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cl2.1330
The most recent Montessori meta-analysis that was mentioned briefly: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0361476X2300036X
(Note per Justus: “The academic outcome is the only one that doesn't closely replicate with our own, but we suspect that it was based on a typographical error in one of the studies that they included.”)
The study mentioned where one of the Montessori outcomes seems “bad", i.e. the graph goes down, but the result is actually the opposite of what it looks like: https://www.montessori-science.org/Science_Evaluating_Montessori_Education_Lillard_.pdf
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About Jesse McCarthy
For 20 years, Jesse McCarthy has worked with thousands of children, parents, teachers and administrators — as a principal for infants to 8th graders, an executive with a nationwide group of private schools, an elementary & junior-high teacher, and a parent-and-teacher mentor.
Jesse received his B.A. in psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and his Montessori teacher's diploma for ages 2.5 to 6+ from Association Montessori Internationale (AMI), the organization founded by Dr. Maria Montessori.
Jesse has spoken on early education and child development at schools around the globe, as well as at popular organizations in and outside of the Montessori community: from AMI/USA to Twitter. Jesse now heads MontessoriEducation.com and hosts The Montessori Education Podcast.