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>SCIENCE EDUCATION AND POLICY EXPERT
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>NAMED TO HEAD EXPLORATORIUM
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>(San Francisco - February 22) Culminating an international search, the Board
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>of Directors of the Exploratorium has selected Dr. Dennis M. Bartels, a
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>nationally known science education and policy expert, to be the new director
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>of San Francisco's acclaimed museum of science, art and human perception -
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>an informal science education institution. Dr. Bartels will be joining the
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>museum on May 1, 2006. Virginia Carollo Rubin has served as Acting Director
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>since September 2005.
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>Bartels, 43, holds a Ph.D. in Education Administration and Policy Analysis
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>from Stanford University. For the last five years he has been President of
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>TERC of Cambridge, Massachusetts, a leading national mathematics, science
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>and technology research and development center known for its innovative
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>curricula, products and tools for teachers and students in K-12 classrooms.
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>TERC is known for its award-winning K-5 mathematics curriculum used in 2000
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>school districts across the country and the innovative use of online
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>technology, including a Masters Degree online for elementary and middle
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>school science teachers that now enrolls 500 teachers across the US and
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>abroad. It employs more than 140 people on 80+ projects, with an annual
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>budget of $18 million and an additional $32 million in ongoing grants.
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Kua Patten MFA
Acting Director
Exploratorium Center for Museum Partnerships
3601 Lyon St.
San Francisco, CA 94123
Phone; 415-353-0409
Fax; 415-353-0433
www.exploratorium.edu

"Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself 
be converted into a new order"
Hermann Hesse

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