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High school physics teachers and the local sections of physics societies

MAR 01, 1963
Under the AAPT‐AIP Regional Counselor Program in Physics, the individual counselors are faced with the problem of helping to encourage better high‐school physics teaching in their own localities. Here, the regional counselor for the state of New York reports on one stimulating approach to that problem carried out with the cooperation of school authorities and the state section of the American Physical Society.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3050805

George W. Hazzard

The New York State Section of the American Physical Society has, in recent years, moved in the direction of programming review meetings on various topics of current interest in physics, designed for the information of physicists who are not necessarily specialists in the fields reviewed.

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George W. Hazzard. General Electric Research Laboratory, Schenectady, N.Y..

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Volume 16, Number 3

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