Earl Legleiter is a senior science consultant at Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) with 23 years of high school physics teaching experience. In 1997 he received the American Association of Physics Teachers Arkansas-Oklahoma-Kansas Section Outstanding High School Physics Teacher award. He was recognized as an American Physical Society Distinguished Physics Teacher in 1999 and was a 1999 national awardee of the prestigious Presidential Award for Excellence in Science.

Topics
Education, Teaching
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