Word: sizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge School Committee voted 4-3 last night to ask Theodore R. Sizer, Dean of the Faculty of Education and four other local ed school deans for help in selecting a new superintendent...
...Sizer said yesterday that the five deans "will find out what the committee wants and then go out and find the best man in the country. The final decision will remain theirs," he added...
...first time in a long time the School Committee has formally come to Harvard for advice. An Ed School professor did help choose a new principal for Rindge Tech a few years back, but the last relationship before that which Sizer remembered was a "very unpopular" survey of Cambridge schools by an Ed School professor 15 years...
...Floor. In practice, school boards have relied mainly on top school administrators and superintendents to decide which new pilot projects, textbooks and course changes to try out. But as teachers insist on having a larger share in setting policy, notes Harvard Graduate School of Education Dean Theodoer Sizer, "the superintendent has been kicked on the floor-teachers are dealing directly with the school board...
...December 1966, Dean Sizer agreed to let students sit on the FCAP and on the Admissions Committee. But some members of the faculty still question whether these high-level administrative groups are the best forum for a student-faculty dialogue...