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TNI’s Interview with Marsha Familaro Enright...Marsha Familaro Enright has been attracted by the pleasures and problems of education since the third grade. Trained in biology and psychology, she has written research articles on psychology, neuropsychology, development, and education for a number of publications. She founded the Council Oak Montessori School near Chicago in 1990 and has served as its president since then. Recently, as founder and president of the Reason, Individualism, Freedom Institute, Marsha and her colleagues have been developing a new college informed by the Montessori Method, the Great Books, Ayn Rand’s ideas, and classical liberalism.Information about that project can be found at its website, www.rifinst.org (href). Marsha also contributes articles and reviews to The New Individualist, including popular profiles of famous authors such as James Clavell, Cameron Hawley, and Tom Wolfe. Recently, she spent time with TNI contributing writer Sara Pentz to discuss the state of modern education, the prospects for its reform, and her own college project...
Montessori, Dewey, and Capitalism by Jerry Kirkpatrick Reviewed by Marsha Enright What kind of education is consonant with a free, capitalist society? A new book offers a cornucopia of ideas and an exciting new theory about how we learn.
In the October, 2006 issue of Chicago Magazine , Council Oak Montessori School was named one of the top 25 private elementary schools in Chicago. How We Ranked ThemThe charts on these pages are not all the same. The larger set of charts rank public elementary, middle, and junior high schools in Chicago and its six surrounding counties; out of the more than 1,740 schools in the Chicago area, we list only the 115 that came out on top in the data-crunching process described below. The number of schools we list for each area is roughly proportional to the total number of schools there; thus, for heavily populated Chicago and Cook County we list the top 30, but for the far less populous McHenry County, only five. On the last chart, we show relevant data for a select group of private and parochial schools, but we do not rank or score them. (Instead, they are listed alphabetically.) Although universal measuring sticks for the public schools exist in the form of standardized data released...