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Donorschoose.org is an interesting way for Public Montessori Schools to make it easy for families to donate online for specific school projects while also reaching out to a larger internet community of possible donors.

Here is a brief description of How it Works

onorsChoose.org is a simple way to provide students in need with resources that our public schools often lack. At this not-for-profit web site, teachers submit project proposals for materials or experiences their students need to learn. These ideas become classroom reality when concerned individuals, whom we call Citizen Philanthropists, choose projects to fund.

This type of donation could be especially useful when a public school classroom is transitioning to Montessori and needs many auto-didactic materials.  A Montessori alumnus might be donating to the site and choose your school.

Well, maybe it is Montessori in an editorial.

I subscribe to a Google Alert for the search term “Montessori”.  The result is that once a week a Google search of Montessori is automatically e-mailed to me.  I am often saddened by the lack of real news or discourse appearing in this periodic and cursory check of internet buzz.  I see more bake sale fund raiser notices than genuine dialogue about Montessori education.

However, I recently read this editorial from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel written by a Ph.D in Urban Education.  I was intrigued by the manner in which he chose to describe the Milwaukee Public School Montessori program to the general reader.  I often have difficulty focusing my comments about Montessori into brief, concise statements.  I am unsure what information is essential and what is extraneous, and this varies between conversations, with the result that I often say too much.  After reading this editorial I can see how the author has chosen to give specific advantages of the Montessori program without really explaining why these advantages exist.

Read for yourself… editorial