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The putney school now
The Putney School is an independent high school in Putney, Vermont. It was founded in 1935 by Carmelita Hinton on the principles of the Progressive Education movement and the teachings of its principal exponent, John Dewey. It is a co-educational, college-preparatory boarding school, with a day-student component, located 12 miles (19 km) outside of Brattleboro, Vermont. Emily Jones is the director. The school enrolls approximately 225 students on a 500 acres (2.0 km2) hilltop campus with classrooms, dormitories, and a dairy farm on which all of its students work before graduating.
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- The putney school now
- Sing at the putney school
- Campus
- Academic program
- Alumni
- Faculty
- In Popular Culture
- References
The school emphasizes academics, a work program, the arts, and physical activity. The school's curriculum is intended to teach the value of labor, art, community, ethics, and scholarship for individual growth.
Sing at the putney school
Campus
Most 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 additions, the Michael S. Currier Center and the Field House. This Currier Center is a departure from Putney's customary white, colonial-style architecture, instead using stone and concrete walls in an angular design. It is used for dance, music, movie-making and visual-art presentations. The Field House, which opened in October 2009, was designed as a "net zero energy building", which means that it is expected that its net use of carbon energy over a year will equal zero. It does so by innovative design and construction features plus a field of solar panels.
Academic program
The Boston Globe wrote: "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 school is a member of the Independent Curriculum Group and in 2009 had a 10-year accreditation review by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.
Alumni
According to The Putney School 2008 Alumni Directory, alumni (graduation class shown) of The Putney School include:
∗∗ attended, but graduated from a different school
Faculty
Some Putney faculty members (subject taught in parentheses) had careers that extended beyond their teaching.
In Popular Culture
In The Freshman (1990 film), character Clark Kellogg, played by Matthew Broderick, says that his father is an English teacher at The Putney School.