Essential schools ted sizer biography wikipedia

Theodore Ryland Sizer (June

There are ten principles. An earlier version also misquoted Mr. Cohen of the Coalition of Essential Schools. He said that Mr. With the death last week of Theodore R. Sizer, precollegiate education lost one of its most influential thinkers and a founder of the contemporary movement to improve schools. Over his long career, Mr. More recently, he helped start the Francis W.

Sizer launched the Coalition of Essential Schools, a national reform network, in to support that vision. Lewis Cohen, the executive director of the coalition, which is based in Oakland, Calif. Begun with 12 schools, the coalition currently has dues-paying member schools. Hundreds more schools belong to centers around the country that are affiliated with the coalition, according to Mr.

April 23, On Lame Horses and Tortoises To my eye, the give-'em-the-nuts-and-bolts strategy is a very threadbare conception of reform, writes Sizer. June 29,