Ted Sizer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American education reformer
Date of Birth: 23-Jun-1932
Place of Birth: New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Date of Death: 21-Oct-2009
Profession: teacher
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About 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.
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