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...annual report to President Pusey, Sizer, who is working this term under a Guggenheim Fellowship at the University of Bristol in England, said that today's overriding mood is "cautious, contentious, and unsure...
...begin to suspect that the materials of instruction are of secondary importance, that the conditions and settings for learning must be sound and humane before any formal curriculum can have meaning," Sizer explained...
...mood of skepticism" toward educational reform has replaced the "almost utopian" optimism of educators during the early 1960's, Ed School dean Theodore R. Sizer said last week...
...Federal and private support, the Ed School can no longer, as it did in the mid-sixties, simply add new programs to accommodate the shift in perspective. Federal aid, for example, which was nearly four-and-a-half million dollars in 1967, was down to $2.67 million last year, Sizer said...
...basis of a "crisis 'base budget' for the immediate future,"-half of which would go to centralized services such as library operations and University overhead-the student-Faculty ratio, now one of the lowest of the Harvard Graduate Schools at 7-1, would likely increase. Furthermore, notes Sizer, there would be "little room for experiment and growth...