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...Cambridge School Committee voted 4-3 last night to ask Theodore R. Sizer, Dean of the Faculty of Education and four other local ed school deans for help in selecting a new superintendent...
...Floor. In practice, school boards have relied mainly on top school administrators and superintendents to decide which new pilot projects, textbooks and course changes to try out. But as teachers insist on having a larger share in setting policy, notes Harvard Graduate School of Education Dean Theodoer Sizer, "the superintendent has been kicked on the floor-teachers are dealing directly with the school board...
...school policy decisions. Dissatisfaction came to a head in February of 1966 when several ad hoc groups formed to agitate for specific reforms. A group of thirty students asked for two supplementary non-credit seminars on group process and social change, and their request was granted by Dean Sizer. A smaller group began its own study of the problems of urban education, a crucial area which they felt the school was ignoring...
When confronted with vigorous agitation for the privilege of student representation on faculty committees, Dean Sizer recommended that students sit on the Library and the Lectures and Publications Committees. Some students were still dissatisfied with this arrangement. They wanted a say in curriculum changes, and therefore wanted to be seated on the Faculty Committee on Academic Policy. (FCAP) To protect their exclusion, they formed a "mirror" student committee to study the problems and to exert some student influence on the FCAP...
...December 1966, Dean Sizer agreed to let students sit on the FCAP and on the Admissions Committee. But some members of the faculty still question whether these high-level administrative groups are the best forum for a student-faculty dialogue...