A map of The Putney School.

The Putney School is an independent alternative high school in Putney, Vermont. Founded in 1935 by Carmelita Hinton, the school is an experiment in progressive education. In addition to strong college-preparatory academics and music and art, the school's campus is a 500 acre (2.0 km²) farm on which all of its students work. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Great Neck Village School, an alternative high school in Great Neck, New York, USA Alternative education, also known as non-traditional education or educational alternative, describes an education that is modified or particularized for those having singular needs, such as maladjusted people and gifted children. ... Main article: Secondary education High school is a name used in some parts of the world, and particularly in North America, to describe the last segment of compulsory education. ... Putney, Vermont Putney is a town located in Windham County, Vermont. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar). ... Carmelita Chase Hinton (1890 - January 16, 1983) was a progressive educator. ... Educational progressivists believe that education must be based on the fact that humans are social animals who learn best in real-life activities with other people. ...

The school's educational program has emphasized the value of labor, art, community, and scholarship for individual growth since its founding. It started as a summer labor camp in 1935 and opened as a boarding school in the fall following the first summer, with most of the campers staying on board to be part of the new student body.

All of the buildings on the school's campus were partially or completely built by Putney students and faculty, with the exception of the most recent addition, the Michael S. Currier Center for the Performing Arts (also a departure from Putney's customary white colonial-style architecture). Upon completion of the first dormitory (and the farm's first harvest), an event known as "Harvest Festival" was born. The Harvest Festival is still held annually and attracts over 3,000 people from Putney and other surrounding towns.

The Boston Globe wrote of it: "The school's combination of a New England work ethic and a strong academic program, its pioneering of coeducation and community service and its emphasis on music and the arts have made it a model for other independent schools...Putney remains committed to the total community of work and schooling that goes far beyond the more limited pieces of its tradition adopted by other schools." The Boston Globe is the most widely-circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts and in the greater New England region. ...

Notable graduates

Graduates of The Putney School include:

• David Amram (composer)
• Tim Asch (anthropologist, filmmaker)
• Nicolas Audy-Rowland (composer)
• Carlos Buhler (mountaineer)
• Dave Cole (sculptor)
• Tim Daly (actor)
• Mahdi ElMandjra (Moroccan futurist, economist and sociologist)
• Lee Hirsch (filmmaker)
• Felicity Huffman (actress)
• Bill Koch (Olympic cross-country skiing medalist)
• Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (former Lieutenant Governor, Maryland)
• Tea Leoni (actress)
• Sally Mann (fine-art photographer)
• Izumi Mori (model)
• Errol Morris (filmmaker)
• Ken Olin (actor, director and TV producer)
• Thomas Ordahl (brand consultant, entrepreneur and writer)
• Chelsea Pennebaker, (photographer), and daughter of documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker
• Lucy Shelton (soprano)
• Jonathan Rosenbaum (film critic)
• Wallace Shawn (actor, writer)
• David Griffiths (physicist, teacher)
• Carlton Cuse (Television writer/executive- "LOST")
• John Poll (Film director- "Charlie Bartlett")

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References

• Cohen, Muriel. "Putney - A Vermont School that Dared and Succeeded." The Boston Globe January 1, 1995: p. A42.
• Lloyd, Susan McIntosh. The Putney School: A Progressive Experiment. Yale University Press, 1987. ISBN 0-300-03742-2.
• "Carmelita Chase Hinton and the Putney School." In Founding Mothers and Others: Women Educational Leaders During the Progressive Era, ed. Alan R. Sadovnik and Susan F. Semel. Palgrave, 2002. ISBN 0-312-29502-2.

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External links

• Putney School web site
• Putney School mission statement
• Putney School Admissions Video on SchoolFair.tv