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Marietta Johnson’s Test-Free School Revolution in Fairhope
In 1907, a small cottage on Church Street in Fairhope became ground zero for an education revolution.
Minnesota teacher Marietta Johnson had moved to this Alabama utopian community with a bold idea: schools were doing it all wrong.
She started with just six students, including her own sons, but soon built something radical. No tests. No grades. No homework…