Classroom Compass
Volume 2 Number 3
Summer 1996

Eisenhower Southwest Consortium for the Improvement of Mathematics and Science Teaching

The Eisenhower SCIMAST project supports science and mathematics education in five states with a combination of training, technical assistance, networking, and information resources. Eisenhower SCIMAST is funded by the U.S. Department of Education's National Eisenhower Program to serve educators in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. Eisenhower SCIMAST works in partnership with the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse, a national resource center dedicated to increasing the availability and the quality of information about instructional resources for science and mathematics educators. As part of that effort, Eisenhower SCIMAST has a resource/demonstration center open to visitors Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The center houses a multimedia collection of science and mathematics instructional materials for grades K­12. It is located on the fourth floor of the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, 211 East Seventh Street, Austin, Texas 78701. The center also has a toll-free number, 1-800-201-7435, that provides callers in the five-state region information on multimedia and print instructional materials, assessment tools, and successful strategies for mathematics and science instruction.