Articles:

• “What’s Lost as Handwriting Fades”, The New York Times article by Maria Konnikova
• “The Future Of Education Was Invented In 1906,” Forbes article by Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry
• “The Montessori Mafia,” Wall Street Journal article by Peter Sims.
• “Montessori Builds Innovators,” by Andrew McAfee in the Harvard Business Review.
• “What do P. Diddy, Sergey Brin and Peter Drucker have in common?” by Glenn Rifkin in Briefings on Talent & Leadership Magazine.
• In The Christian Science Monitor, writer Eoin O’Carroll asks, “Does Montessori’s ‘Child-Centered’ Method Work?”
• “Succeeding At Their Own Pace,” by Alex Beam of The Boston Globe on the Montessori approach and its famous alumni.
• “Is Montessori the Origin of Google and Amazon?” by business author Steve Denning in a Forbes blog post as a follow up to his article, Wakeup Call for the Gates Foundation: Think Bigger!”
• “Montessori, Now 100, Goes Mainstream,” from the January 2, 2007 issue of The Washington Post
• In “Game Master,” from the November 6, 2006 issue of New Yorker magazine, award-winning videogame designer Will Wright (of The Sims) gives credit to his Montessori education
• “Maria Montessori and 10 Famous Graduates from her Schools,” by Chris Gaylord in The Christian Science Monitor
• “Montessori: The Science Behind the Genius,” Chapter 1 (PDF), by Angeline Stoll Lillard

Scientific Studies:

• “The Early Years: Evaluating Montessori Education,” published in the September 29, 2006 Science magazine, found significant advantages for Montessori over traditional education.

• Two studies by Dr. Kevin Rathunde (University of Utah) appeared in 2005: “The Social Context of Middle School: Teachers, Friends, and Activities in Montessori and Traditional School Environments” and “Middle School Students’ Motivation and Quality of Experience: A Comparison of Montessori and Traditional School Environments.”