Biography of j myron atkins

Biography

Mike Atkin taught science for seven years in New York elementary and secondary schools. He joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in science education in 1955 and moved to the Stanford University faculty in 1979.

Biography of j myron atkins

At both universities, he also was Dean of Education: from 1970 to 1979 at Illinois and from 1979 to 1986 at Stanford.

He has chaired the Education Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and served as a consultant on education to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris.

He is a National Associate of the National Academies of Science (NAS), where he has been a member of several boards and committees, including the Mathematical Sciences Education Board and the National Committee on Science Education Standards.

He also chaired the NAS/National Research Council Committee on Science Education K-12, the Committee on Classroom Assessment and the National Science Edu