page_title: The Putney School
section_title: Academic program
hierarchical_section_title: The Putney School / Academic program
caption_attribution_description: English: The Putney School: then-director Brian Morgan addresses the graduating Class of 2004
context_page_description: The Putney School is an independent high school located in Putney, Vermont. The school 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 outside of Brattleboro, Vermont. Emily Jones is the current director. The school enrolls approximately 225 students on a 500 acres hilltop campus with classrooms, dormitories, and a dairy farm on which all of its students work before graduating.
  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.
context_section_description: In 1995, the Boston Globe described the school as combining "a New England work ethic and a strong academic program." The school is a member of the Independent Curriculum Group and in 2009 received a 10-year accreditation review by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.
caption: Then-Director Brian Morgan addresses the graduating Class of 2004.
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