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Impact
The Graduate College of Education seeks to impact public education not only in its immediate communities like Boston and Quincy, but it also seeks to improve the quality of education for students beyond the borders of Massachusetts. Individual faculty members as well as those associated with our five centers and institutes achieve these goals through their teaching, scholarship, and service.
This semester we highlight the impact of the Center of Science and Math in Context (COSMIC). Since its inception, COSMIC faculty, staff, and graduate students have been very active in preparing novice and supporting experienced teachers to provide rigorous and intellectually stimulating science instruction. Through a $12.5 million grant funded by the National Science Foundation, Dr Hannah Sevian and other UMASS faculty have been working with Boston Public Schools partners to improve science achievement for students in grades 6 through 12. COSMIC is also involved in a number of other projects to improve teacher quality, revise physics and chemistry curricula, among others.
COSMIC’s impact on education extends beyond local communities. COSMIC Director, Dr. Arthur Eisenkraft, recently testified before a congressional panel in support of improving America’s high school science laboratories to ensure all high school students can learn through similar hands-on science education experiences. Dr. Eisenkraft, a member of the National Research Council‘s Lab Committee of the National Academy of Sciences, spoke in response to House bill: H.R. 524 To Establish a Laboratory Science Pilot Program at the National Science Foundation.
Visit COSMIC’s website for more information on how the Center aims to strengthen the pipeline toward science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers.