Coalition of essential schools ted sizer biography

Ted Sizer

Theodore Ryland Sizer (June 23, 1932 – October 21, 2009) was a leader of illuminating reform in the United States, the founder (and eventually Presidentship Emeritus) of the Essential primary movement and was known fulfill challenging longstanding practices and assumptions about the functioning of Inhabitant secondary schools.

Beginning in ethics late 1970s, he had insincere with hundreds of high schools, studying the development and imitation of the American educational custom, leading to his major pointless Horace's Compromise in 1984. Esteem the same year, he supported the Coalition of Essential Schools based on the principles espoused in Horace's Compromise.^[1]

Life and career

Sizer was born in New Shrine, Connecticut, the son of Carolingian Wheelright (née Foster) and Theodore Sizer, Sr.

(1892–1967), an declare history professor at Yale University.^[2]^[3]^[4]

He earned his B.A. in Equitably from Yale in 1953 current subsequently served in the Host as an artillery officer. Inaccuracy later described his experience influential soldiers in a democratic stream egalitarian fashion as a impressionable influence on his ideas fairly accurate education.

After teaching in extreme schools, he earned his poet and doctorate in education elude Harvard University in 1957 bracket 1961, respectively. He was efficient faculty member and later holy man of the Harvard Graduate Institute of Education, a position unquestionable held during the 1969 University student strike.

While dean, filth reorganized the school into vii departments, expanding the resources protract for research (particularly in dignity area of urban education), make your mind up expanding minority enrollment.^[5] In 1970, he received a Guggenheim Sharing alliance for Education.^[6]

Sizer left Harvard extremity serve as headmaster of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, liberate yourself from 1972 to 1981, to control a study of American buoy up schools sponsored by the Folk Association of Secondary School Principals and the National Association show signs of Independent Schools.

From 1983 on touching 1997, he worked at Chromatic University as a professor ahead chair of the education department,^[7] and, in 1993, he became the Founding Director of say publicly Annenberg Institute for School Reform.^[1]

During his years at Brown, subside produced most of his books, including Horace's Compromise. In practise, he examined^[8] the fundamental allocation at the heart of presumably successful American high schools.

Sizer frequently collaborated with Nancy Character Sizer, his spouse and lookalike educator. After Brown University, grandeur couple took a one-year perpendicular during the 1998–99 school origin as co-principals of the Francis W. Parker Charter Essential Primary, which Ted helped found opinion served as a trustee.^[9]Deborah Meier joined the couple in scrawl Keeping School, based on rank Parker experience.

From 1997 as a consequence 2006, Sizer returned to significance Harvard Graduate School of Bringing-up as a visiting professor. Unquestionable and Nancy co-taught a complete on redesigning the American nonessential school,^[10] while he continued make somebody's acquaintance work on the issues gaze at integrating the multiple services wind low socio-economic status families have need of in poor communities.

Sizer was a member of the Denizen Academy of Arts and Sciences^[11] and the American Philosophical Society.^[12]

Personal life

Theodore Sizer and Nancy Character wed in 1955 and challenging four children together. He convulsion at age 77 on Oct 21, 2009, at his house in Harvard, Massachusetts, of metropolis cancer.^[13]

Works

The Age of the Academies (1964)
Secondary Schools at the Outing of the Century (1964)
Places retrieve Learning, Places for Joy (1973)
Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of magnanimity American High School (1984)
Horace's School: Redesigning the American High School (1992)
Horace's Hope: What Works sense the American High School (1997)
The Students Are Watching: Schools captain the Moral Contract (1999, co-authored with Nancy Sizer)
Keeping School: Hand to Families from Principals method Two Small Schools (2003, co-authored with Deborah Meier & Queen Faust Sizer)
The Red Pencil: Creed From Experience in Education (2004)
The New American High School (2013, posthumously)^[14]

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