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Theodore R. Sizer, Dean of the Faculty of Education, said Tuesday that the $3 million Ford grant was a "long-term sort of thing, whereas our action programs are more short-ranged." He added that Ford had awarded the school $230,000 for another year's continuation of its studies and programs on racial integration
Theodore R. Sizer, Dean of the Faculty of Education, said Tuesday that the $3 million Ford grant was a "long-term sort of thing, whereas our action programs are more short-ranged." He added that Ford had awarded the school $230,000 for another year's continuation of its studies and programs on racial integration
...deficiencies of the Boston schools have been recounted before-most notably in Peter Schrag's sober, well-researched Village School Downtown, which was published last April. Harvard Graduate School of Education Dean Theodore Sizer contends that Ko zol's recital of the ills of the Boston schools could be duplicated in many other big U.S. school systems. By overstating and underdocumenting his blustery crusade, Kozol is pushing Boston's regressive school officials into an even more defensive stance rather than inspiring them to correct much that is undeniably wrong. Indeed, School Superintendent William Ohrenberger dismisses the entire...
...Sizer said yesterday that the five deans "will find out what the committee wants and then go out and find the best man in the country. The final decision will remain theirs," he added...
...first time in a long time the School Committee has formally come to Harvard for advice. An Ed School professor did help choose a new principal for Rindge Tech a few years back, but the last relationship before that which Sizer remembered was a "very unpopular" survey of Cambridge schools by an Ed School professor 15 years...