When he was 15, Weir ran away to work on a cattle ranch in Wyoming — an experience he revisited on his new album, Blue Mountain. "I ... carried it around for the rest of my days," he said.
Educator Theodore Sizer. His 1984 book, "Horace's Compromise," was the fictionalized tale of a typical American high school. It was based on Sizer's own experiences as a teacher, and two years of field research. Sizer resurrects Horace in his new book, "Horace's School." It's a look at some possible roads toward educational reform. (It's published by Houghton Mifflin). Sizer is the chairman of the Coalition of Essential Schools at Brown University, the former Headmaster of Phillips Academy, and the former dean of the Graduate School of Education at Harvard.
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