Montessori Goes Public in Atlanta

By Kate Sweeney

Atlanta, GA – As the school year is wraps up, test scores have been the big story all over the education front.

We see and hear it everywhere: The state and nation are placing stronger than ever emphases on testing. And yet a few public schools here in Atlanta are going back to an older method - one nearly a hundred-years old - that doesn't use grades, at all.

WABE's Kate Sweeney has more on the Montessori method's new place in Atlanta education.