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According to Theodore R. Sizer, dean of the Ed School, the intent of the new curriculum is to draw on existing resources to "do what Harvard can do best," or to avoid duplication of effort with other schools of education and competition for very limited funds...
...Courses dealing with the teaching of a particular subject would be dropped. As a result, changes would occur in the composition of the Faculty. "We can't admit people to the doctoral program unless we can guarantee them Faculty continuity over their four years," Sizer said last night. "We know what Faculty will be here next year, so there's no problem with...
...Many people will interpret this report as an attempt to shut down the MAT program, as Yale and Johns Hopkins have had to do with theirs," Sizer added. "We're most emphatically not shutting the program down, we're trying to make it better...
...Sizer stated that financial reasons for the proposed changes were "secondary, but important." He said that the Ed School's financial crisis prevented the addition of new programs, and that therefore the only solution to the present "disfunctional and ineffective" curriculum was re-grouping...
Theodore R. Sizer, 38, dean of the Harvard School of Education...