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...Theodore Sizer, a professor at Brown University, related his experiences as the chair of the Coalition of Essential Schools (ECS) to approximately 100 people at the Kennedy School of Government. ECS is a group dedicated to "exploring restructuring from schoolhouse to statehouse," Sizer said...
...What characterizes good schools are good ideas carried out idiosyncratically to that school," Sizer said...
...problems with the current structure of the nation's school systems, which Sizer called "sloppy" is that schools are not "held accountable until kids can perform...
...also criticized the "hierachy of education" and said that important decisions are better made at the classroom level. "We believe that productivity is higher when important decisions are pushed down to the shop floor," said Sizer...
...teach a person well unless you know that person well," he said. Sizer said the "centralization of education" in the U.S. stifles individuality in students. Specifically, he criticized the use of standardized testing and the rigidity of rules which strictly correlate the age of students with their grade level...