Carmelita Chase Hinton

(1890-1983) born in Omaha. Educator, founded Putney School in Vermont in 1935, a secondary school based on the progressive theories of John Dewey with emphasis on team teaching, community involvement, independent study, and an evaluation system without grades; she retired as director in 1955. Consult Time, November 15, 1954, p. 52 and New York Times obituary, January 25, 1983, p. 28 and Biographical Dictionary of Modern Educators (Greenwood Press, 1997) 160-161 and American National Biography, Vol 10 (1999) 849-850 and Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century (Belknap, 2004) 301-302.

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