The National Student Research Center (NSRC) was founded at Mandeville Middle School in Mandeville, Louisiana, U.S.A.. Mandeville Middle School is recognized by the United States Department of Education as a National School of Excellence. Mandeville Middle School is a flagship school in the St. Tammany Parish Public School Center.
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VisionThe National Student Research Center envisions educating children around the world to become humanitarian and ecological 21st century citizens in an ultimately diverse and highly interdependent, science and technology based, global community.
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PhilosophyThe National Student Research Center's teaching philosophy is one of educating the mind, touching the heart, and creating an intelligent and caring future. The NSRC believes in the education of scientifically and technologically literate students who possess a repertoire of socially relevant knowledge and critical problem solving skills. Young people must acquire the ability to apply scientific thought and technological skills in a creative and productive way towards the betterment of their personal lives and the society in which they live. The bottom-line reality of the NSRC's teaching effort is to create the future. Therefore, it is our goal to provide students with the "twenty-first century" attitudes, values, beliefs, skills, and global perspectives which will help them grow up to be rational and loving adults who care about themselves, their fellow humans, the environment, and the world as a whole.
MissionThe National Student Research Center facilitates the establishment of Student Research Centers in schools across the United States of America and around the world. The NSRC disseminates the innovative, highly effective, and empirically validated Student Research Center approach to instruction.
Instructional ApproachThe Student Research Center approach to instruction is an interdisciplinary, student centered, and high technology program dedicated to promoting technological proficiency, scientific literacy, science process skills, higher order thinking, and language arts skills. It is based upon the constructivist learning model and emphasizes;
Electronic School DistrictThe National Student Research Center's telecomputing network on the Internet facilitates an international Electronic School District where students from distant schools have the opportunity to participate in cooperative student research teams and interschool research projects, exchange scientific data, query a support team of professionals about their topics of study, and send research abstracts to the NSRC for publication in its printed and electronic journals and databases of student research. Program development materials, electronic journals and databases are maintained in the NSRC's Electronic Library and are freely available to teachers and students for search and retrieval of information at two different electronic libraries.
Electronic
LibraryProgram development materials, E-Journals, and databases of
student research are located in the NSRC's
Electronic Library housed on Youth Net.
E-Journal of Student
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The NSRC publishes an electronic journal of student research, The E-Journal of Student Research, which is read by students, teachers, parents, and professionals world-wide. The E-Journal of Student Research, published since 1992, is the first of its kind in K-12 education.
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