Word: sizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...center, which was announced last week by Theodore R. Sizer, Dean of the School of Education, will carry on a long-term cooperative program with the participating school systems, studying social and cultural differences as they affect learning. Hopefully new teaching methods, curriculum materials, and training programs will be developed and will be made part of actual classroom practice as quickly as possible...
...Center will attempt to correct alleged insensitivity in schools to environmental differences and "develop means by which schools can be more responsive to social and cultural differences and actually use them for the increased benefits they serve," said Theodore Sizer '39, Dean of the School of Education...
...Sizer pointed out, however, that the American view of the purpose of education has passed through a recognizable series of cycles, and the socio-economic emphasis was merely the latest of them...
This era produced many constructive changes in our educational system, Sizer said, but it produced its excesses as well: the tendency to "push the intellectual line to the extreme" for the less gifted child or ignore him altogether...
...danger today is the reverse," Sizer commented. "There may be a tendency to look at school as a part of the economy and look at children as cogs, as economic units." He said the new emphasis on education of culturally deprived groups was certain to benefit America, but warned, "We must recognize the diversity in our educational system and avoid undue concentration on any one group," which would produce "a truncated version of a complete program...