The Carden Method is an educational program created by Mae Carden, in response to what she saw as problems with progressive education, and used today in roughly 80 independent, mostly nonsectarian K-8 schools across the United States. The first Carden school opened in New York City in 1934, and Carden went on to found the Carden Educational Foundation, which keeps the methods teaching materials in use. The curriculum covers mathematics, language arts, science, history and geography together with art, music and foreign languages, and it builds concepts up over time instead of dropping them once they are first taught. It is especially known for close attention to language instruction, including sentence analysis and a spelling system called Carden Controls, a set of rules for breaking a word down into its basic phonic parts. Educators have given it mixed reviews, praising the thoroughness of its language teaching while criticizing it as rigid and, in places, out of step with modern grammar and everyday usage. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Core ClaimAn educational program developed by Mae Carden in response to what she saw as a decline in understanding in progressive education. 2 Classification
Education LevelPrimary Education (ISCED 1) 1 Education LevelLower Secondary Education (ISCED 2) 1 FAQs
What languages and literature do Carden schools teach?
French or Spanish from kindergarten through middle school, with Latin for some students and mostly classical literature.
Foreign language instruction in French or Spanish, depending on the school, begins as early as kindergarten and continues through middle school. Some students also begin Latin around the sixth or seventh grade, which is meant to complement their French and help them understand other Romance languages later. The literature the method recommends is mostly classical, including The Aeneid, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Last of the Mohicans.
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The Carden Method is an educational program developed by Mae Carden and practiced in approximately 80 K-8 schools across the United States.
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The Carden Method is an educational program developed by Mae Carden and practiced in approximately 80 K-8 schools across the United States.
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The Carden Method is an educational program developed by Mae Carden and practiced in approximately 80 K-8 schools across the United States.
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The first Carden school was established in 1934 in New York City.
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Mae Carden developed the Carden Method in response to what she perceived as a decline in understanding in progressive education.
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