Noted education-reform advocate dies

From The New York Times: Theodore R. Sizer, one of the country’s most prominent education-reform advocates, has died at his home in Harvard, Mass. He was 77. He was best known as the father of the Essential Schools movement, which he founded in 1984. He also had served as dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, headmaster of Phillips Academy, Froand chairman of the education department at Brown University.