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Obviously used to homework, Sizer is the son of Yale's mustachioed Pro fessor Emeritus Theodore Sizer, a splendidly offbeat art historian now serving as Yale's first "Pursuivant of Arms" (designer of college flags). Himself a Yaleman ('53), the younger Sizer first learned that he liked teaching when he became an Army gunnery instructor, later taught math and English at Boston's private Roxbury Latin School. By 1961 he was an assistant professor, with a Harvard Ph.D. in history and education. More important, he became director of the education school's main claim...
Last week the joke was on Theodore R. Sizer, a strapping, stripling Harvard education professor. At 31-and looking a bit young for some Radcliffe girls-he got Keppel's old job, and thus took a giant step forward in the U.S. academic procession. Not without qualms. The school has "one very big problem," he admitted. "A dean as raw as raw can be. This dean has to get out and make contacts in public education. He's got a lot of homework to do in the big cities, in the professional associations...
...Dean Sizer will go on teaching his course in "British and American Edu cation since 1870." But his real job lies in raising money, unifying the patchwork school and refocusing its mission. Sizer hopes to put even more stress on practice teaching, but in urban schools rather than the almost exclusively suburban schools that now feed off Harvard. Given the disarray of big-city schools-Boston's are a compelling example-it is high time for Harvard to help out. Happily, Sizer seems to be right on target...
...Although Sizer will temporarily remain director of the MAT program, which trains students as secondary school teachers, he will be unable to devote as much time to it as in the past...
...post will not affect Sizer's teaching load. He will continue to give one half-course each semester. This term he is leading a seminar on American education during the years...