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Theodore R. Sizer, dean of the Ed School and chairman of the committee, acknowledged that the proposal had not been able to go into finances "in a detailed...
Introducing the reform proposal to the Faculty yesterday, Sizer said that "the halcyon days of change by addition are gone. The committee, in making its proposals, had to assume that new programs would have to take place of old ones...
...Sizer said last week that financial difficulties have had a "definitely secondary" influence on the proposed reforms. He said that major changes in the organization of instruction have been contemplated for years...
...Dean's Report, Sizer wrote: "At the School of Education, we criticize academic standardization in schools- yet too often we engage in it ourselves. We not only organize ourselves conventionally; we prescribe, with little justification, a set number of courses of similar length taught in relatively similar patterns for all students. The eight-half-course/two-term model, which individual faculty strive mightily to subvert, is clearly inadequate to our needs and inconsistent with our rhetoric...
...Report. Sizer added, "When we contemplate changing courses and the grading system, we cannot proceed incrementally. A single radical change is needed, for all the various pieces fit inextricably together...