PRISM (Partnership for Reform in Science and Mathematics) is an initiative of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia in partnership with the Georgia Department of Education, four core public universities (two research institutions, one regional, and one state university) and additional supporting higher education partners, and thirteen school districts involving cities (Atlanta and Savannah), small urban regions and rural areas.
PRISM activities are built on a foundation of past work in the state that emphasizes a preK-16 approach to education. PRISM seeks to increase science and mathematics achievement by providing challenging science and mathematics curricula for all students; raising public awareness of the need for all students to complete the challenging curricula; increasing and sustaining the number, quality and diversity of P-12 teachers of science and mathematics; and increasing the responsiveness of higher education to the needs of schools.
The Principal Investigator of PRISM is Jan Kettlewell.
More information can be
found on a separate web site created by this project: http:// www.gaprism.org.
This site was created to enhance communication and collaboration
between partners within the PRISM
project as well as to inform the public of the efforts of the Math
and Science Partnership Program. While selected documents in the
library and resources sections have been made available
to the public, only logged in members of the
PRISM project can post comments,
participate or read posts in the Working Groups, or see the interactive
Calendar.
