A Strategy for Overhauling the American High School; Theodore Sizer: A Man with a Mission

From: The Washington Post | Date: August 9, 1987| Author: | Copyright information

THEODORE SIZER stands in his small orderly office at Brown University, talking on the telephone to a harried school principal. He's got to ring off soon, but he's not about to rush her, because she's got problems, and her problems are his problems. Shifting from one foot to the other, and occasionally tugging at his tie, he doles out a stream of sympathy, reassurance, suggestions and humor, telling her to let him know how things go, even to call him at home.

The principal, in an urban high school, is one of 46 around the country who are trying, with Sizer's guidance, to revolutionize ...

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