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...station should be ready for the official opening of the building in January. It is rumored that Dean Sizer would like to televise the ceremony...
...Israel Scheffler, the committee's chairman, will write a summary report, which will undergo further polishing by the committee--which includes Dean Theodore R. Sizer--and then be distributed. The report will almost certainly be published in book form, but there is some sentiment for delaying this until the faculty acts upon...
Since the committee, in his words, is trying "to pose radical questions to ourselves about what the Ed School ought to be doing," Scheffler's report is expected to look well beyond Harvard. Dean Sizer explains that it will consider schools of education in general and the place of such schools in any major private university. Specific recommendations for Harvard will thus be placed within a larger framework...
...Sizer said he thought the committee's investigations might help teaching at the School of Education. "There are other ways of teaching besides just standing up and lecturing to people," he said, "and some of them may perhaps be better. One of the best known courses at the Ed School--William Perry's course on counseling--is taught almost entirely by tapes...
Besides Ford and Sizer, the committee's members include Dwight Le M. Bolinger, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures; Edwin E. Moise, James Bryant Conant Professor of Education and Mathematics; Douglas Porter, assistant professor of Education and the University's director of Programmed Instruction; David E. Purpel, assistant professor of Education and acting director of the Master of Arts in Teaching program; and William G. Perry, director of the Bureau of Study Counsel...