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Theodore R. Sizer, Dean of the Graduate School of Education urged the parents and teachers of the Shady Hill School to cooperate more fully with the public and parochial schools of Cambridge, last night...
...Sizer aserted that Shady Hill should accept "as an article of faith, that there is much fine teaching going on in Cambridge public and parochial schools. I get mad when private school parents tell me they won't send their children to public schools," he said...
...Sizer urged the school to carry on new experiments in progressive education. Noting that children grow at different rates, he asked if grouping students by age was realistic. He said that present day systems of marking pupils should be reevaluated...
...center, which was announced last week by Theodore R. Sizer, Dean of the School of Education, will carry on a long-term cooperative program with the participating school systems, studying social and cultural differences as they affect learning. Hopefully new teaching methods, curriculum materials, and training programs will be developed and will be made part of actual classroom practice as quickly as possible...
...Center will attempt to correct alleged insensitivity in schools to environmental differences and "develop means by which schools can be more responsive to social and cultural differences and actually use them for the increased benefits they serve," said Theodore Sizer '39, Dean of the School of Education...