| 1 | Name: | Dr. Theodore R. Sizer | |
| Institution: | Coalition of Essential Schools, Brown University | ||
| Year Elected: | 1996 | ||
| Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | ||
| Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | ||
| Residency: | Resident | ||
| Living? : | Deceased | ||
| Birth Date: | 1932 | ||
| Death Date: | October 21, 2009 | ||
Among America's leading educational reformers, Theodore R. Sizer is currently Professor Emeritus in Education at Brown University. He is the founder of the Coalition of Essential Schools (CES), an organization dedicated to creating and sustaining equitable, intellectually vibrant, personalized schools and to making such schools the norm of American public education. From 1964-72, Dr. Sizer was dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Later, he was headmaster of Phillips Academy (Andover, MA) from 1972-81. In 1983, he joined the faculty of Brown University, where he served as founding director of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform and founded CES. Later, Dr. Sizer served with his wife, Nancy Faust Sizer, as co-principal of the Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School in Devens, MA. Among Dr. Sizer's several books, those of his "Horace" series (e.g., Horace's Compromise) on school reform are classics in the field. They center on the professional challenges of a fictional high-school English teacher named Horace Smith. His most recent book is The Red Pencil: Convictions from Experience in Education (2004). A historian by training, he was educated at Yale (B.A.) and Harvard (M.A.T., Ph.D.) Universities. He is the recipient of numerous honorary degrees. | |||