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'''Carlotta Adele Anderson (Mrs. J. Scott Anderson)''' (March 18, 1876 – March 6, 1956) was an American educator, especially interested in the [[Montessori method]] and in the instruction of the [[deaf-mute|deaf and mute]].

She was born in [[New York City]], the daughter of Newell Willard Bloss and Emma C. Jones,<ref name="Leonard1914"/> and studied at various colleges and universities, among them the [[Wright-Humason School for the Deaf|Wright Humason School]] for oral teaching of the deaf, and Teachers College, [[Columbia University]]. She studied the Montessori method in [[Rome]]. Herself a teacher of the deaf for several years, she was from 1903 to 1915 the owner of oral schools for the deaf and of teacher-training schools in New York and Pennsylvania. For many years, she interested herself in introducing the Montessori method in public schools. She was in charge of training [[teachers of the deaf]] at the [[The College of New Jersey|New Jersey State Normal School]] at [[Trenton, New Jersey|Trenton]] (1918–1921). She was United States delegate to the third International Congress on Home Education at [[Brussels]] in 1910 and was general secretary of the fourth International Congress.

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<ref name="Leonard1914">{{Citation
 | editor1-first = John William
 | editor1-last  = Leonard
 | title     = Woman's Who's Who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915
 | publisher = American Commonwealth Company
 | page      = 48
 | year      = 1914
 | location  = New York
 | url       = https://books.google.com/books?id=GvwUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA48
 | postscript= .
}}</ref>
}}
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[[Category:1876 births]]
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[[Category:Educators from New York (state)]]
[[Category:Educators of the deaf]]
[[Category:Teachers College, Columbia University alumni]]


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