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Shortly thereafter, then-University President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 named him GSE Dean in 1964. Sizer left Harvard in 1972 to become the headmaster at Philips Academy Andover, and in 1994 was named Department Head for Education and Director of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at...
Theodore R. Sizer, former dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and innovative educational reformer, died last week of colon cancer at his Harvard, Mass., home at the age of 77.
Sizer, who was known as the “boy dean” on campus after being selected as Dean of the GSE at the age of 31, had to grapple with the societal upheaval of the 1960s during his term, including the Vietnam War and student riots, according to...
Powell added that Sizer wanted to focus education around the culture that children grew up in instead of just directing all attention to what happened in school. He recalled a day when Sesame Street characters Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie put on a show in the Science Center after research...
In 1984, he collected his thoughts on education in his book “Horace’s Compromise,” which Powell said helped Sizer “find his voice” and served as inspiration for the Coalition of Essential Schools, which emphasizes the role of...