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Yes some models
90% of Maria Montessori’s work was in early childhood. She developed not just a philosophy but a complete implementation schema: curriculum, teacher training, etc., all with a tremendous amount of cross cultural testing.
Every 3 year age band you go out from that, there’s like 5x less work that she put into it. It’s more of a philosophy, the implementation strategy isn’t there. There’s no Montessori-developed curriculum for the physics of forced, or algebra, or even literature (its own topic). That was left to her followers, who have many local solutions but who haven’t generally done the greatest job at creating something scalable.
Successful MS/HS models, of which there are a few, take different looks. Most common is farm school, school + running farm as business (like, for real).
Less common are urban models where there is substantial community integration, sometimes a university.
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