Word: sizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Theodore Sizer, former dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Education, told the audience of 125 that the United States should use a "common sense" approach to outdo Japan in education...
American schools should establish clear academic aims for students and teachers, Sizer said. "Schools have to have visible goals," he said. "That is, goals that kids can understand...
...Sizer also said educators should be allowed to take a more individualized approach to teaching. He added that class sizes should vary with each teacher's ability to know all the students in the class...
...teach a person well unless you know that person well," he said. Sizer said the "centralization of education" in the U.S. stifles individuality in students. Specifically, he criticized the use of standardized testing and the rigidity of rules which strictly correlate the age of students with their grade level...
...with a changing field of issues, such as the crisis of faculty recruitment, scholars and administrators say. But they add that despite the increased complexity and changes in emphasis, the intrinsic issues of the job are constant. "There may be pressure over time, but the basic questions are enduring," Sizer says. "They are financial and academic, and they ultimately lead to decisions about the movement of scholarship in the country...