Harvard Project Physics was a national curriculum development project to create a secondary school physics education program in the United States. The project was active from 1962 to 1972, and produced the Project Physics series of texts, which were used in physics classrooms in the 1970's and 1980's. The project was centered at Harvard University, but drew from schools and educators from across the country. The directors of this project were: F. James Rutherford, with the Department of Science Education at New York University; Gerald Holton, with the Department of Physics, Harvard University; and Fletcher G. Watson, with the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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• [1] "The Project Physics Course, Then and Now" by Gerald Holton, from the journal Science & Education

• [2] "Harvard Project Physics: a report on its aims and current status" by Gerald Holton, from the journal Physics Education, Volume 4, Issue 1, pp. 19-25 (1969)

• [3] "Harvard project physics - A cogent approach" by Arnold J. Moore, from Science Education

• [4] an example of a slide rule developed for the project

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