# Ted Sizer

> Theodore Ryland Sizer was a leader of educational reform in the United States, the founder of the Essential Schools 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.

*American education reformer (1932-2009)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Educator
- **Category:** Educators
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1932-06-23
- **Died:** 2009-10-21
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Theodore Ryland Sizer was a leader of educational reform in the United States, the founder of the Essential Schools 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.

## Fame
- **Fame score:** 39.4
- **Momentum:** 1.6

## Sources
- [Ted Sizer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Sizer)
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- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7693729)

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