Word: sizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fall. The death of Martin Luther King had set off what appeared to be a tidal wave of reform at the school of Education. The Faculty had voted to fund the studies of minority group students, fifty of whom were recruited by late May. Dean Theodore R. Sizer received a comprehensive mandate from the Faculty for reforming the Ed School's urban program, and with tradition everywhere in retreat, groups of dissidents from all programs began yelling for reforms, many totally unrelated to the revolution in the nation's streets...
This fall, many reformers are still waiting for the wave to break. In its own quiet way, the Ed School has begun a genuine program of change. But as Sizer puts it, "it's not revision, it's evolution." The Ed School's upheaval subsided in the face of some very old problems: the need to balance action programs with academic inquiry, and lack of money...
...movement for change received its first unified statement last May in a Report on a Study of Academic Programs at the Ed School, written at Sizer's request by Adam Curle, professor of Education and Development, and Phillip Whitten, newly-elected head of the Ed School Student Association. Curle and Whitten conducted extensive interviews throughout the School, and made 18 concrete proposals for change. These can be generalized to four key demands...
Theodore R. Sizer, Dean of the Graduate School of Education said that Gutman's gift had provided " a tremendous boost in out efforts to complete the campaign during the next twelve months." A recent challenge grant of $500,000 by the Kresge Foundation requires that the balance of the project's cost be raised by July...
...Dean Sizer said that he hopes to complete the fund-raising campaign in time to begin construction during the summer or fall...