Ted sizer biography

          Theodore R. Sizer was an American educator and administrator who was best known for founding () the Coalition of Essential Schools (CES).

        1. Ted Sizer led the Ed School and went on to found the Coalition of Essential Schools, whose school reform ideas continue to make a difference.
        2. Life and career Sizer was.
        3. Theodore Ryland Sizer was a leader of educational reform in the United States, the founder of the Essential school movement and was known for challenging longstanding practices and assumptions about the functioning of American secondary schools.
        4. Theodore "Ted" R. Sizer received his B.A. from Yale and his doctorate from Harvard.

          5. Life and career Sizer was..

          Ted Sizer

          Theodore Ryland Sizer (June 23, 1932 – October 21, 2009) was a leader of educational reform in the United States, the founder (and eventually President Emeritus) of the Essential school movement and was known for challenging longstanding practices and assumptions about the functioning of American secondary schools.

          Beginning in the late 1970s, he had worked with hundreds of high schools, studying the development and design of the American educational system, leading to his major work Horace's Compromise in 1984. In the same year, he founded the Coalition of Essential Schools based on the principles espoused in Horace's Compromise.[1]

          Life and career

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

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

          He earned his B.A. in English from Yale in 1953 and subsequently served in the Army as an artiller