An Experiment in IRE-Secondary School Cooperation

The Long Island Section of the IRE has attempted to attack the problem of cooperation with the secondary schools in its region in two ways. The first is to supply technical support to the high-school science teacher by direct contact with the student in areas where rapid scientific advances have made specialist knowledge a requirement. The second is towards the provision of a lecture series specifically for the teachers themselves. This paper describes the approach and the results of the first two years of operation of the program.