Montessori education
At the time that The Caedmon School was founded in 1962, Montessori education was undergoing its second rise in popularity in the United States. In the late 1950s Nancy McCormick Rambusch, who had undergone Montessori training in London, returned to the US with the idea of reviving Montessori education. Rambusch first founded the Whitby School in Greenwich, Connecticut, which became the flagship school of the American Montessori. In 1960, Rambusch founded the American Montessori Society (AMS).