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Those who did make the list of 23 included four other University deans in addition to Bok: John T. Dunlop, dean of the FAS; Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Medical School; Harvey Brooks, dean of the Graduate School of Engineering and Applied Physics; and Theodore Sizer, dean of the Graduate School of Education...
...main argument against the tests in the U.S. is that there is no necessary link between such exercises and better education. "You cannot test intellectual habits," argues Theodore Sizer, an educational-reform thinker based in Providence who heads the Coalition of Essential Schools. He feels it would be better to leave matters where they stand...
...Sizer said that state governments should have little influence on what curriculum is actually taught in the classroom. "I believe the state has no business deciding what kind of history my kid learns," he said...
...type of knowledge that schools teach is equally important, he said. Sizer criticized the practices of schools that divide learning into distinct subjects rather than taking a broad-based, integrated approach...
...None of the faculty ever think in generally educated terms," Sizer said. "Each instructor is only concerned with their area of expertise," he said...