City Rocks and National Standards

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Martin Becker

MARTIN BECKER received a doctorate in earth and environmental sciences in 1997 from the City University of New York and taught high school chemistry and earth science in Randolph, New Jersey, prior to accepting a position as a geology instructor in the physics department at the College of New Jersey, Trenton. His research interests include science education and paleontology.

William Slattery

WILLIAM SLATTERY, who received a doctorate in earth and environmental sciences in 1994 from the City University of New York, taught physics and earth science at DePaul High School in Wayne, New Jersey, before accepting a joint appointment in the Departments of Geological Sciences and Teacher Education at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. His research interests include developing, on the basis of actual data, earth system activities for elementary, middle, and high school classes and the sequence stratigraphy of active and passive continental margins.

Colleen Finegan-stoll

COLLEEN FINEGAN-STOLL received her Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from the University of South Florida in 1990. She has taught special education, early childhood, and elementary classes for more than 25 years. Her research interests include teacher efficacy, alternative certification procedures, and the underidentification of gifted minority students.