Ted Sizer

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Theodore R. Sizer (born June 23, 1932 in New Haven, CT) is a leader of educational reform in the United States. Since the late 1970s, he has worked with hundreds of high schools, studying the development and design of the American educational system. In 1984, he founded the Coalition of Essential Schools and is currently serving as its Chair Emeritus.^[1]

Sizer received his B.A. from Yale University and his doctorate from Harvard University.^[1] He held several teaching positions before becoming dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He later became the headmaster of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. From 1983 to 1997, Sizer worked at Brown University as a professor and chair of the education department,^[2] and in 1993, he became the Founding Director of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform.^[1]

After retiring from Brown in 1996, Professor Sizer took a one-year position as co-principal (with his wife Nancy Sizer) of the Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School (of which he is a Trustee Emeritus) during the 1998-99 school year.^[3]

[edit] Selected writings

The Students Are Watching: Schools and the Moral Contract (1999, co-authored with Nancy Sizer)
Horace's Hope: What Works for the American High School (1997)
Horace's School: Redesigning the American High School (1992)
Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School (1984)
Places for Learning, Places for Joy (1973)