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...proposal will be presented to the laboratory committee today. Sizer said yesterday that the committee is just beginning to discuss detailed plans for the project, which must be submitted to the federal government for approval...
...laboratory, which would be built with federal funds, is now being planned by a committee which includes Theodore R. Sizer, Dean of the Faculty of Education, representatives of other area schools, and Boston and state officials...
Last year the Graduate School of Education appointed a senate committee to study, in Dean Sizer's words, "how this faculty..., with its own set of strengths and weaknesses, could best use its resources to illumine and improve the quality education." Financed by a $25,000 grant from the Carnegie Fundation, the committee conidered everything from the mild-reforms to the most radical. After it had reached a consensus, German Israel Scheffler drafted a report that was released last week now it will be debated by the faculty. Excerpts from the Scheffler Report appear below...
...Dean Sizer's timetable calls for final approval of the Scheffler report by the end of the 1965-66 academic year; but it has had at least one pre-publication effect. After the committee's discussions showed agreement on that the faculty organize itself into the question, Dean Sizer proposed six areas, and the faculty, at its April meeting, agreed. The new structure will go into effect next Fall, for an experimental period of one year...
...Sizer says he expects the Scheffler Report to provide the same sort of interest in his faculty that the Doty Report did this year in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. If the Scheffler Report does make a bold break with the past, it seems certain to be a hot topic of conversation in many places beside the water holes on Appian...