Science Teaching as a Profession:
Why it Isn't How it Could Be
Sheila Tobias & Anne Baffert
High-quality science education is an essential component of America’s long-term prosperity and security. No one knows this better than the men and women who teach high-school science. But until now no one has asked them to describe the challenges that diminish their professional status: their loss of autonomy in the classroom; having little say in school and school-district policies; inflexible government-mandated tests, which, increasingly are being used to judge not just their pupils’ but their own competence; lack of support staff, and too much “administrivia” wasting their time. In this book, education writer Sheila Tobias and high-school science chair Anne Baffert report from hundreds of teacher interviews and website postings, that there are ways for science teachers, in collaboration with scientists and willing school administrators, to reverse these trends.
Download: Science Teaching as a ProfessionLength 142 pages. E-Published by Research Corporation, 2009.
Academic Excellence: The Role of Research in the Physical Sciences at Undergraduate Institutions
Michael P. Doyle, editor
OUT OF PRINT* - We are considering reprinting this volume. Please let us know of your interest by e-mailing us at rcbooks@rescorp.org
Download: Academic Excellence: The Role of Research in the Physical Sciences at Undergraduate Institutions
Length 199 pages. Published by Research Corporation, 2000.
Download: Academic Excellence: The Sourcebook
Length 531 pages. Published by Research Corporation, 2001.
Bringing the Excitement of Science to the Classroom
by the Teachers and Mentors of the Partners In Science Program
W. Stevenson Bacon, editor
A collection of first-hand experiences from a highly successful ten-year experiment in science education from the standpoints of the participants and administrators of the Partners program which allowed high school teachers to do two summers of research with a college or university mentor. A how-to section is included for those interested in joining or founding similar programs.
Length 112 pages, 6 x 9, paper. Published by Research Corporation, 2000. Cost: $2.50, includes "media rate" shipping.
Rethinking Science as a Career: Perceptions and Realities in the Physical Sciences
Sheila Tobias, Daryl E. Chubin and Kevin Aylesworth
Many of America's best minds have been idled by changing national priorities, and recent graduates in science may have difficulty in finding employment. The authors gauge the scope of the job problem and recommend measures to restructure the supply of, and demand for, scientists.
Length 157 pages incl. appendix, index, 6 x 9, paper. Published by Research Corporation, 1995. Cost: $2.50, includes "media rate" shipping.
Cottrell Samaritan of Science
Frank Cameron
The story of the the founder of Research Corporation who invented the electrostatic precipitator, still one of primary means for controlling industrial air pollution, and used it to fund academic science in the United States. A reprint edition of the original 1952 biography of Frederick Gardner Cottrell with forward by Ernest O. Lawrence.
Length 414 pages incl. index, 6-1/2 x 8-1/2, paper. Reprint edition published 1993 by Research Corporation. Cost: $10.00, includes shipping.
Revitalizing Undergraduate Science: Why Some Things Work and Most Don't
Sheila Tobias
OUT OF PRINT
A decade of study and innovation aimed at correcting serious flaws in undergraduate science failed to remedy serious problems. Here's why most reforms of college science have been incomplete and short-lived.
Length 192 pages incl. appendix, index, 6 x 9, paper. Published by Research Corporation, 1992.