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...page anniversary report, M.A.T. Director Theodore R. Sizer contrasts the program's present size and influence to its early years." Sizer, an assistant professor of Education, recalls that the M.A.T. program was first suggested by Harvard President James B. Conant...
With aid from du Pont and the Ford Foundation, among others, he was able to meet the competition of scholarships offered by other professionals schools. "The vigor of the campaign--for such it was--was rather unusual for an institution of higher learning," Sizer reports...
Today, accordingto Sizer's report, the M.A.T. degree is "well established in American academia." Similar ventures have been established by Yale, Chicago Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Oberlin, and Wesleyan...
...argue today against the notions that a teacher must know his subject know how to teach it in the broadest sense, know something about the school as an institution and about why one teaches, and have experience as an apprentice," Sizer wrote...
...Sizer, an historian of education, is Director of the Master of Arts in Teaching Program. McPhee, whose field is administration, is assisting in development of the University's Administrative Career Program. He came here this fall from Washington, where he helped direct a program for raising national standards in the selection of future school superintendents...