Sizer on Education
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Your interview with Theodore Sizer (Opinion, Aug. 18) was a joke! His great idea is to have one teacher learn two curricula so she/he can work with the same students for two disciplines. When a teacher grades 80 essays about “Evangeline” and 80 essays about the colonial system in North America, that teacher is still grading 160 essays! And, surprisingly enough, it is far easier to grade 160 essays on the same or similar topics than it is to grade essays on not only two different topics, but in two different disciplines. Is Sizer willing and eager to seriously teach in two different departments, or does he just think American public high school teachers should do this?
Sorry, but until you can find some serious studies about teachers from the trenches rather than the ivory tower, nobody who can make any difference will do anything but laugh at you. Been there, done that--no panaceas.
HEATHER SMITH
Fountain Valley
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