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Assistant Professor of Education Philip M. Sadler, who heads the CFA’s science education department and teaches Astronomy 2, “Celestial Navigation,” is helping the observatory to hold events for adults and children in the Boston area in the coming weeks...
...study by Philip Sadler, director of science education at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, shows that students who had taken high school physics classes that used textbooks did substantially worse in college physics than those whose high school classes used no textbooks at all. Baltimore's nonprofit Abell Foundation, searching for a top-flight math book for gifted students, couldn't find one in the U.S., and turned instead to an English-language book from Singapore...
...study by Philip Sadler, director of science education at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, shows that students who had taken high school physics classes that used textbooks did substantially worse in college physics than those whose high school classes used no textbooks at all. Baltimore's nonprofit Abell Foundation, searching for a top-flight math book for gifted students, couldn't find one in the U.S., and turned instead to an English-language book from Singapore...
...Philip M. Sadler, Wright lecturer on navigation in the astronomy department and assistant professor of education at GSE, has taught the course for about ten years. He estimates that two thirds of the 15 to 35 students the course usually draws are undergraduates, and the remaining third come from various graduate schools...
...Sadler agrees. "We go out on a boat and they have to find their way back to Boston, so they'd better know how to work together...