Background
Sizer, Theodore R. was born on June 23, 1932 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
( This engaging and important book is a critique of Ameri...)
This engaging and important book is a critique of American education wrapped in a memoir. Drawing on his fifty years as teacher, principal, researcher, professor, and dean, Theodore R. Sizer identifies three crucial areas in which policy discussion about public education has been dangerously silent. He argues that we must break that silence and rethink how to educate our youth. Sizer discusses our failure to differentiate between teaching and learning, noting that formal schooling must adapt to and confront the powerful influences found outside traditional classrooms. He examines the practical as well as philosophical necessity for sharing policy-making authority among families, schools, and centralized governments. And he denounces our fetish with order, our belief that the familiar routines that have existed for generations are the only way to bring learning to children. Sizer provides alternatives to these failed routinesguidelines for creating a new educational system that would, among other things, break with wasteful traditional practice, utilize agencies and arrangements beyond the school building, and design each child’s educational program around his or her particular needs and potential.
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Sizer, Theodore R. was born on June 23, 1932 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
Bachelor in English Literature, Yale University, 1953. Master of Arts in Teaching in Social Studies, Harvard University, 1957. Phd in American History and Education, Harvard University, 1961.
PedD (honorary), Lawrence University, 1969. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Union College, 1972. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Connecticut College, 1984.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Williams College, 1984. Master of Arts ad eundem, Brown University, 1985. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), U Massachusetts, Lowell, 1985.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Dartmouth College, 1985. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Lafayette College, 1991. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Webster University, 1992.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Indiana University, 1993. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Mount Holyoke College, 1993. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Maine, 1993.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Iona College, 1995. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Long Island University, 1996. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Bridgewater State College, 1996.
English and mathematics teacher Roxbury Latin School, Boston, 1955-1956. History and geography teacher Melbourne (Australia) Grammar School, 1958. Assistant professor education, director Master of Arts in teachers program Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1961-1964, dean graduate school education, 1964-1972.
Headmaster, instructor in history Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 1972-1981. Chairman A Study of High Schools, 1981-1984. Professor education Brown University, Providence, 1984-1996, chairman education department, 1984-1989, Walter H. Annenberg professor education, 1993-1994, director Annenberg Institute School Reform, 1994-1996, university professor emeritus, 1997—2009.
Chairman Coalition of Essential Schools, 1984—1997, chairman emeritus, from 1997. Visiting professor University Bristol, England, 1971, Brown University, Providence, 1983. Visiting professor education Brandeis University, from 2001.
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Active National Advisory Council, Scholastic, Inc., 1996. Captain United States Army, 1953-1955. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society.
Member National Academy Education.
Married Nancy Faust; 4 children.