Ted Sizer is arguably the leading educational reformer in the United States. In 1984, he founded the Coalition of Essential Schools and is currently serving as its chair emeritus. Ted received his Bachelor of Arts from Yale, and his doctorate from Harvard. He held several teaching positions before becoming Dean of the Graduate School of Education at Harvard and, subsequently, the Headmaster of Phillips Academy in Andover, MA. gse.hightechhigh.org
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By coincidence, Phillips Academy's visionary past headmaster decades earlier had taken an initial step on the road to academe in this exact corner of Fort Devens. Before enlisting in the military, Sizer had earned a B.A. at Yale, where his father taught www.andover.edu/publications/1999winter_bulletin/sizer/si...
Ted Sizer is a former dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. As the founder of the Coalition of Essential Schools, he has been one of the premier spokespersons in America for more progressive decentralized schools with genuine performance stan www.edletter.org/past/issues/2000-mj/forum.shtml
Ted Sizer offered his thoughts on the role of the teacher today. "The book from which the chapter on grappling is taken rests on the principle that, whatever their age, kids watch us all the time and learn. Those of us in the school world are conscious www.nbsc.org/schoolgovernance.html
