Education professor Merrie King gave a presentation called, Bridging the Divide: Montessori and Current Research, at the 2012 Annual American Montessori  Conference, Montessori: The Bridge to Learning for Every Child, on March 17 in San Francisco,  Calif.  In addition, King was elected as a representative to the Teacher Education Action Committee of the American Montessori Society.  AMS is the largest Montessori organization in the world, with more than 1,300 member schools, over 13,000 individual members, and close to 100 AMS-affiliated teacher education programs.