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Overview
Programs and Activities
Regional Sites
Leadership Team
Partnerships
-Corporate
-Publishers
-School Districts
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The LASER
Center
In 1998, the National Science
Resources Center (NSRC) launched a long-term nationwide initiative called
LASER--Leadership and Assistance for Science Education Reform--a new collaborative model
for promoting and sustaining science education reform. The LASER Center
is one of four Science Education Implementation and Dissemination
Centers supported by the National Science Foundation's Division of
Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education. The Center involves partnerships established by the NSRC with three groups: (1) Regional LASER Sites, (2) publishers, and
(3) corporations and private foundations. These partners work together to help LASER client school districts explore, adopt, and implement effective,
inquiry-centered K-8 science education programs and bring about systemic reform
of science education in their
communities.
The NSRC has primary responsibility for providing the programs and resources for the
two major phases--the initiation phase and the implementation phase--of
the Center's work. The NSRC will serve as a clearinghouse by developing and maintaining an
electronic communications system for information sharing and networking among LASER sites
and client districts.
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