Theodore R. Sizer, Scholar and Advocate of Education Reform, Is Dead at 77

Theodore R. Sizer, a former dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an influential author who helped shape the nation's debate over education reform, died on on Wednesday, The New York Times reported. He was 77. Best known as the father of the Essential Schools movement, which emphasizes depth of knowledge over breadth, Mr. Sizer was also the founder and first director of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, at Brown University.