Word: sizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Theodore Sizer, dean of the Ed School, last night said that he knew nothing of the proposal. Sizer said that Ed School professor Spencer McDonald had been in New York yesterday conferring with some parties in the school dispute. McDonald had not yet contacted him with any information on the dispute or possible solutions, Sizer said...
...This idea has floated around for years in New York and other cities," Sizer said, commenting that he did not know "its exact currency" in New York
...only way to fill the curricular gap in teacher training, of course, is to hire more faculty. Sizer could throw out established or incipient research projects to raise the funds and hire faculty but he refuses. "There have been very few schools," says Sizer, "that have been able to stay with basic inquiry. The one's that don't, become trade schools. We can't keep putting band-aids on urban schools. We've got to have some long-range solutions." To get at the problem of training teachers Sizer has applied for a federal grant to fund two clinical...
...FACULTY intransigeance on grading is not what it seems. Two years ago, with Sizer's backing, the Faculty voted a laissez-faire policy on grading -- professors are completely free to decide whether or not they want to give finals or grades. Now, over half the Ed School's courses are ungraded, and the number increases yearly...
...Sizer apparently expects change in urban curriculum to follow the example of grading policy -- a slow and persistent evolution. Whether his policy works will depend to a large degree on the students and faculty who are supposedly pushing for change...