Dr. Larry Krumenaker

Dr. Larry Krumenaker, by training a professional astronomer and planetarium educator, is a science, technology and online services journalist and science/astronomy teacher and popularizer in Atlanta, GA. His latest book is entitled The Characteristics and the Life Cycle of Stars, an anthology of current thought, by Rosen Publishing (2006). Krumenaker edited and published 13 editions of Net.Journal Directory, a semi-annual listing of full text journals archived on the Web. He also is a co-author of the book Internet at a Glance, 3rd Ed. (1996, Information Today, Inc).   Krumenaker has also been the staff writer for Rutgers University's Wireless Information Network Laboratory's Packets newsletter.

Dr. Krumenaker is the publisher and editor of the new quarterly practitioner's magazine The Classroom Astronomer, a practitioner's journal for teachers of astronomy.  The first issue was Fall 2009 and can be visited at the website http://ClassroomAstronomer.ToTeachTheStars.net .  

As a writer to the trade, Dr. Krumenaker has written for Germany's Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allegemeine Sonntagzeitung, and Moscow's science newspaper Poisk. He has in the past written for Sky and Telescope, Science, Discovery Channel

Online and other science magazines as well as computer and library trade journals including Internet World, The Searcher and Online Access. Biographies of astronauts were contributed by him to Microsoft's Encarta Encyclopedia 1997 CDROM and animation scripts and captions for Byron Preiss Multimedia's Timetables of Technology CDROM (view avi's here!).

Dr. Krumenaker earned astronomy degrees at Case Western Reserve University and a planetarium education degree from Michigan State University's Abrams Planetarium.  He recently earned his doctorate at the University of Georgia in Science Education with a dissertation entitled The Status and Makeup of the U.S. High School Astronomy Course in the Era of No Child Left Behind.. General summaries and some more specific sections on resources high school astronomy teachers use for content and professional development and how to create a high school astronomy course, and how to maintain one when threatened by NCLB and its state-related friendscan be found here http://lkrumena.myweb.uga.edu/SUMMARY.HTM.

• 2009 Southeastern Planetarium Association (SEPA), Nashville, TX.  (Keynote Speaker) Russian and American High School Astronomies: A Visit to Russia and Its Only School Planetarium.  Also, How Astronomy Got Pluto'd by NCLB and Why It Just Won't Go Away. June 2009
• 2008 National Science Teachers Association, Boston, MA. High School Astronomy Courses: What Teachers Say Creates or Maintains One. March 2008.
• 2008 Georgia Science Teachers Association, Athens, GA Presentations: The Status and Makeup of High School Astronomy Classes in the US and Georgia, and H.S. Astronomy Teachers Roundtable. Presented February 2008
• 2008 American Astronomical Society, Austin, TX. The Makeup of the Modern US High School Astronomy Course - 25 Years After Sadler's Study. January 2008.
• 2008 American Association of Physics Teachers, Baltimore, MD The Ultimate High School (2000+) Astronomy Teachers Resource List and High School Astronomy Courses-Sadler's 1983 Study Updated for NCLB (Poster). January 2008.
• 2007 Georgia Science Teachers Association, Athens, GA. Workshops presented: Eye Spy: Spectroscopy-More Than Just Looking At Gas Tubes, and What Do Ping Pong Balls Have to Say About the Nature of Science and the History of the Solar System?
• 2006 Southeastern Association of Science Teacher Educators, Macon, GA. The Hermeneutics of Hogwarts, or, Using Harry Potter as a Training Simulation for Ethnographic and Curricular Studies for New Science Teachers.
• 2005 World Science Forum, Budapest, Hungary. The Narrative in Science Journalism and Its Value in Public Understanding of Science.
• In the 1990's, I also gave a variety of talks at information broker and library science conferences. I am no longer in that field.