There are many high-quality daycare centers throughout the Dallas-Ft.Worth area where creative daily programs are being implemented. The most significant difference between those programs and the Castle Montessori Schools is that Castle Montessori Schools follow a single, time-tested, proven philosophy of child development and education. At Castle Montessori Schools the Montessori method is used as a complete and integrated approach to childhood education based on the life work of Dr. Maria Montessori.  The Montessori method often causes confusion or misunderstanding among parents and the founders and faculty of Castle Montessori are on a mission to provide a clear understanding of Montessori education to parents. Dr. Montessori possessed incredible insight, and her scientific observations of child development have proven accurate both over the years and around the globe. In keeping with her observations and insights, Castle Montessori [more..]

In their May 8, 2006, issue, Newsweek scheduled their Best 100 Public Schools all over the state. They ranked the schools by means of a proportion of the number of Advanced Placement (AP) and/or International Baccalaureate tests written by all students within a school, separated by the number of graduating pupils. The 2006 list was made according to the 2004-2005 school year. Their aspire is to admit those schools that do the most excellent job of preparing standard students for college, despite their financial background.Three Dallas schools made the list with one captivating peak honors. Dallas schools’ Highland Park High School weighed in at figure 18 with a ratio of 4.735. Dallas schools’ Science as well as Engineering Magnet took honors at number eight with a relation of 6.275. Dallas schools’ Talented in addition to Gifted [more..]

Since 2003, the Texas schools have required background checks for all newly hired teachers and certified employees. Anyone not falling into these two categories or hired before 2003 were not included in the background checks, though some school districts included them on a local basis. In the fall of 2006, several newspapers investigated the quality of these background checks and found that the information was often incomplete or received weeks or even months after educators were hired. Here are some of the problems with the previous Texas schools system, according to an article on March 27 by the Dallas Morning News: • The Dallas school district conducts checks, but they did not report the criminal histories of educators to a state agency within the required seven days. One teacher had received a deferred adjudication probation in 2002 for indecent [more..]