Word: sizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is a stabler, less social reformist time," says Theodore R. Sizer, director of Brown University's Coalition of Essential Schools. "We don't have labor lawyers appointed as presidents. When Derek Bok took over a very tense campus, it was very different than Brown...
...sits as chairman of the board of editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, runs his own institute and promotes Britannica's Great Books program (about 250,000 copies sold since 1952), which he conceived and for which he churned out a 1 million-word index in 26 months. Sighs Theodore Sizer, 54, chairman of Brown University's department of education: "If I have that much energy and optimism when I'm his age, I'll be a lucky person...
Reaction to the report was strong and mixed. Theodore Sizer, chairman of the department of education at Brown University, praised the study's objective to "attract the best teachers and then make it possible to keep them within the system." U.S. Secretary of Education William Bennett favored higher certification standards, liberal arts training and top pay for top people. But he noted, "There is a missing person in the report, and that is the school principal. You cannot run a school by committee...
Over the course of this summer's 11-day "Institute on the Principal and School Improvement," the participants have spent mornings and evenings in discussions with some of the biggest names in educational theoris. including former Ed School Dean Theodore Sizer and Professor of Education Sara Lawrence Lightfoot. They have also spent afternoon with coach other. In group, sessions discussing the nuts and bolts of school leadership...
...Sizer would reorganize the curriculum into four major areas: inquiry and expression, mathematics and science, literature and arts, and philosophy and history. English and writing skills would come under the first category; knowledge of the system of American government would be in the fourth. Foreign language, Sizer says, is "largely wasted" unless there is an immediate use for that language. He would also eliminate vocational education on the principle that "the best vocational education will be one in general education in the use of one's mind," followed by specific training at the work site...