Education

A Cautionary Perspective on Social Justice Teaching  by Martin Rochester, 11.1.2017 A recent front-page story in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about “teaching social justice” in K–12 classrooms [...]

Creating the World We Want “During my first learning journey with MMS students to South Africa in 2009, I was struck by the fact that the South Africans I met spoke so openly about race, [...]

American Democracy, American Racism The Mount Madonna School (MMS) public lecture series based on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) continues on March 18 at 7:00pm with [...]

A Letter from a most thoughtful educator “Dear Friends and Colleagues: I am writing today about the children of this pandemic. After a lifetime of working among the young, I feel compelled [...]

A Book-banning Debate Over How to Teach Antiracism The Burbank Unified School District has removed five books from instruction: “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” “Roll of Thunder, Hear My [...]

What is the current status of schools in Santa Cruz County? In-Person? Distance-Learning? Combination Choices? You would have to be living under a rock to not know that throughout the world there [...]

The United States Constitution The Constitution is the framework for the federal government of the United States. It is the highest form of law in the country. The Constitution creates the [...]

Online Resources Local Parents are Discussing and Using These resources come from local homeschooling parents who recommend that you find what works best for your children’s unique learning [...]

We are living in a historic moment in time, and Mount Madonna is committed to making a return to in-person, five-days per week school as safe as possible for students, faculty and staff.

With the re-opening of schools coming up, parents are considering choices.