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...Dean Sizer of the School of Education, in his recent call for federal aid to private preparatory schools, made an assumption which the world of 1967 denies: that such institutions serve any real educational purpose...
...Glen Cove, from Darien and Shaker Heights--the very areas with some of the best public secondary schools in the nation. The graduates of these schools come to Cambridge and New Haven and find themselves in no way less "prepared" than their neighbors who raced off to what Dean Sizer calls "independent" schools...
...contend that national educational quality would be immeasurably better served by taking the money now spent on private preparatory schools as well as whatever amounts Dean Sizer hopes the federal government will spend in aid to these obviously impoverished institutions and give them instead to the schools truly in need of help--in the slums and rural areas. The $170,000 to be spent by the Danforth Foundation for its "study" of prep schools alone would pay for a full year's improved operation of the public school systems in any one of a number of counties in West Virginia...
...penalty if the government does not aid prep schools as Dean Sizer wishes? They may have to increase tuition. The time is long past when the nation can cry over potential hardships to the rich. But the time is ripe to aid education where aid is truly needed, and that need lies far from the soccer fields or our "independent" schools. Peter C. Poole...
...schools set up "a distinct hierachy among teachers" in which a few top men -- like senior professors -- would earn the highest salary (perhaps $15,000). They would be responsible for training younger teachers, a job in which schools of education should have only a secondary role, he said. Sizer also briefly attacked much of what is taught in "independent" schools (and in others) as "irrelevant." The time spent in such traditional subjects as English instruction should be slashed to make way for new ones, such as Far Eastern history, he urged...