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Raising her children led Stern to an interest in preschool education, and she studied the Montessori method of teaching. In 1924 she opened Breslau's first Montessori kindergarten, which she later expanded to include the primary grades. Renouncing drills and routinization, Stern developed new materials for teaching reading and mathematics. She published two important works in the field of kindergarten and elementary education, Methodik der taglichen Kinderhauspraxis (1932; translated as Methods of Daily Kindergarten Practice) and Wille, Phantasie and Werkgestaltung (1933; translated as Will, Fantasy and Work Development). Far too innovative for the Nazis, Stern was also persecuted for her Jewish background. In 1938 she and her husband immigrated to New York, where she took the name Catherine Stern. She became an American citizen in 1944.
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