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Appendix
Letter of Inquiry
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NA1lONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
COMMISSION ON BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES AND EDUCATION
2101 Con'6tubon Avenue \ - shington. D. C. 2~18
Gnome ON RESEARCH ~ MA EM^ncs.
ICE. AND TECHNOLOGY EDuc~noN
Dear
April 10, 1985
I a. seeking your help in a study being undertaken by the
National Research Council at the behest of the National Science
Foundation Foundation has asked our Committee on Research in
Mathematics, Science, and Technolgoy Education (list of members
enclosed) to develop strategies for fostering lnterdi~ciolinarY
research in education. The question is simple: How can outstanding
thematiclane9 scientists from the natural, behavioral and social
sciences' and educatlona1 researchers and practitioners be attracted
to work collaboratively and productively on problems of mathematics
and science education?
It seems to us that the history of the 1960s ought to be an
integral part of the renewed efforts of the 1980s to improve
mathematics and science education in the schools. Your experience as
one of the leaders of curriculum reform is an invaluable resource as
the country attempts once more to improve the teaching and learning
of mathematics and science. We are asking you and about a dozen
others to provide some reflections on the projects with which you
were involved, especially regarding the processes for doing
collaborative work:
o What Motivated outstanding scholar. to work on the 1960s
curriculum projects? What incentives were provided? What
disincentives were there? I the climate different now? If
so, what incentives are needed now?
O How was participation in a curriculum project viewed by the
participant's institution, peers, professional community?
}low did this differ depending on one' ~ discipline and type of
institution (research unlversiq, college, school)? To what
extent, if at all, have these attitudes changed?
O How much collaborative work .. with other scientific
disciplines, with educational researchers, with teachers and
educators -. was involved in the projects with which you are
familiar? How much was perceived as necessary? Whae is your
view on the need today for such collaborative research?
(202) 334~3290 '
TO N tinsel Ite#arch Council ~ the priRa~l op~tirt c' - ret of the NeNonal Arede.Ry of SarRc" and alar Nsho~cl Army - y of E~'ierr"
to trod t - #rRfR#ret ered of/err oqlarei~Hon'
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April 10, 1985
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helped or hladered participants from different ur~iversity
departments,, from precollege institueiorm9 from a variety of
assoclations9 from the private sector in working together
effeeti~ly?
Ue appreciae. that you are probably very buy and have titele
tin to respond in details However, we are not asklug for a paper but
only that you Jot down in a page or two your refiectlons on these
issu.e ant ocher related ones that con to Bind. A stamped, addressed
return envelope is enclosed for your con~renience. If you prefer,
respond over she telephone; Senta Raider`, our study directors would be
happy to hear from you or answer aver questions you might have. Her
telephone m~cr is (202) 334~3290.
In advanco~, thank you very Arch for your cooperation and
asaist~ee.
Cordially,
Ja_e Go March
ChaiNn
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Request for Responses*
Dr. Jerome S. Bn~nor
George Herbert Mead University
Professor
Hew School for Social Research
Dr. Robert B. Davis
Curriculum Laboratory
University of Illinois/Urbana
DrO Andrew M. Gleason
Professor of Mathematics
Harvard University
Dr. David Hawkins
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
University of Colorado
Dr. Gerald Holton
Mallinckrod~c Professor of
Physics, and Professor of
History of Science
Harvard University
Dr. Arthur H. LiveDore
Consultant
Bethesda, Maryland
formerly, Director of Education
Research, African Association
for the Advancement of Science)
Dr. William V. Mayer
President Emeritus
Biological Science Curriculum
Study Company
* Affiliation as of April 1985
Dr. John Mayor
Assistant Provost for Research
University of Maryland
Dr. John Ao Moore
Chairperson, Education Committee
Society for the Study of Evolution
University of California,
Riverside
Dr. Philip Morrison
Professor of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Dr. George CO Pimentel
Chairman, Department of Chemis try
Unl~rersity of California, Berkeley
Or. Henry 0. Pollak
Assistant Vice President
Bell Communications Research, Inc.
Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg
Unlvereley Professor of Chemistry
University of Calfiornia
DrO John Go Trmcal
Distinguished Teaching Profesor
State University of New York at
Stony Brook
DrO Jerrold R. Zacharias
Education Development Center, Inc.
Newton, Hassachw etts
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