Hessian Hills School (1925–1952) was a progressive school[1] in the Mount Airy neighborhood of Croton-on-Hudson, New York.[2][3][4] The school was founded as a community school by Elizabeth Moos and Margaret Hatfield.[5][6][7] Children were welcomed from age 2 to 15. In 1934, Hessian Hills School, City and Country School in New York City, and five other like-minded progressive schools formed a group called Associated Experimental Schools to raise funds and to refine their progressive philosophy, but the group was abandoned by the end of the 1930s. City and Country School has preserved the archives of this group.
Parents were "an eclectic group of socialists, Quakers, radical Jews, prominent intellectuals and liberal business-people".[3] The curriculum was based on the ideas of John Dewey and Horace Mann.[5] Frances Horwich was head of the school for a few years during World War II, and later became host of the children's television program Ding Dong School. She was followed in 1943 by educator James L. Hymes Jr.[8] Moos, the founder, developed political views which some viewed as too far to the left.[5]
^"Education: In Hessian Hills". Time. 1932-12-19. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 2021-08-08.
^Campbell, Katherine M. (1984). An Experiment in Education: The Hessian Hills School, 1925-1952. Boston, Mass.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ abCampbell, Katherine M. (1984). "The Hessian Hills School, 1930-1941: Social Reconstructionism in Practice". Journal of the Midwest History of Education Society. 17: 78–86.
^"Hessian Hill School (historical) (in Westchester County, NY)". newyork.hometownlocator.com. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
^ abc"Hessian Hills School: An Idea Before Its Time". The Croton-Cortlandt News. August 9, 1973. Retrieved 2020-01-02.
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^Reisch, George A. (2019-05-01). The Politics of Paradigms: Thomas S. Kuhn, James B. Conant, and the Cold War "Struggle for Men's Minds". SUNY Press. ISBN 978-1-4384-7368-0.
^Hymes, James L. (1943). "Building the Post-war World Now". Childhood Education. 19 (7): 300–303. doi:10.1080/00094056.1943.10725760.
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