Word: sizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...organized a cooperative program with 30 of the top liberal-arts colleges in the U.S. to funnel some of their most talented graduates into professional education via Harvard's graduate school. After Keppel moved on in 1962 to become U.S. Commissioner of Education, another brilliant young innovator, Theodore Sizer, now 33, succeeded him as dean, and continued the push toward making education a major concern of all of Harvard's academic disciplines...
Shunning the status quo, Dean Sizer insists that Harvard should be concerned with "what schools should be like in the future, and to train people for service in them now." A school of education, he believes, must seek a balance between "the wisdom gained from detachment and that from commitment." The search for the proper mix between necessary involvement in social reform and a more aloof and thoughtful attitude toward education is nothing new, in Sizer's view, but the challenge for Harvard is that "no institution has so far achieved...
...proposal will be presented to the laboratory committee today. Sizer said yesterday that the committee is just beginning to discuss detailed plans for the project, which must be submitted to the federal government for approval...
...laboratory, which would be built with federal funds, is now being planned by a committee which includes Theodore R. Sizer, Dean of the Faculty of Education, representatives of other area schools, and Boston and state officials...
Last year the Graduate School of Education appointed a senate committee to study, in Dean Sizer's words, "how this faculty..., with its own set of strengths and weaknesses, could best use its resources to illumine and improve the quality education." Financed by a $25,000 grant from the Carnegie Fundation, the committee conidered everything from the mild-reforms to the most radical. After it had reached a consensus, German Israel Scheffler drafted a report that was released last week now it will be debated by the faculty. Excerpts from the Scheffler Report appear below...