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Improving the Astronomy in Schools
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Dr. Lawrence Krumenaker...
...has
been an astronomer, DeKalb County GA high school science teacher, college
astronomy instructor in New Jersey and Georgia, and a planetarium instructor. His
BS and MS astronomy degrees are from Case Western Reserve University,
an MAT in Planetarium Education is from Michigan State University, and
his Ph.D. in Science Education is from the University of Georgia.
His
dissertation was a nationwide survey of high
school astronomy courses and the effects of No Child Left Behind on
them.
A
well-published author (Astronomy
Education Review, Science, Sky and Telescope, and
others), Dr.
Krumenaker was the publisher/editor of The
Classroom Astronomer (2009-2015)
magazine (resurrected as a Substack Newsletter in 2021, now part of The Galactic Times newsletter) and author of several forthcoming books, plus The Characteristics and the Life
Cycles of Stars; An Anthology of Current Thought from Rosen Publishers (2006). He
has been a speaker at such diverse meetings sites as the Southeastern
Planetarium Association, AAPT, NSTA, GSTA, various Korean education groups, and the Hungarian
Academy of
Sciences.
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