The historical under-representation of diverse youth in environmental science education is inextricably connected to access and identity-related issues. Many diverse youth with limited previous experience to the outdoors as a source for learning and/or leisure may consider environmental science as "unthinkable." This is an ethnographic…

This article describes the collective efforts educators and multiple community partners are taking to transform one alternative urban high school into a full-service community school. The article presents preliminary findings on the opportunities for bridging social capital that the full-service initiative has created and the impacts such…

The present study investigated the effectiveness of a cognitive enrichment programme as a tool for enhancing the chances of immigrant and minority students to be admitted to a technological college. Students received two weekly sessions (four hours) of "Instrumental Enrichment" (IE) during the second semester of the college preparatory…

Although educational leaders, policy makers, and researchers have long emphasized the importance of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) for the country's continued prosperity, increasing participation in STEM has remained a challenge for both the education and scientific communities (Pearson & Fechter, 1994; National…

In 2006, the National Science Foundation (NSF) began funding the Model Replication Institutions (MRI) program, which sought to improve the quality, availability, and diversity of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. Faced with pressing national priorities in the STEM fields and chronic gaps in postsecondary…

Two leading science educators provide a comprehensive, state-of-the-field analysis of current trends in the research, policy, and practice of science education. This book offers valuable insights into why gaps in science achievement among racial, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and socioeconomic groups persist, and points toward practical means of…

The history of the development of the minority program funded through the National Science Foundation is traced in this paper. Types of activities supported by the program are listed, problems addressed by the program are described briefly, and future program development is discussed. (DT)

Describes a program which seeks out minority students with a potential for engineering education, inspires them to enter the program, enrolls them in an intensive seven-week remediation phase, and matriculates them into a college of engineering. (GS)

Methods for increasing minority representation in medicine and the related health professions are discussed in this paper. The programs sponsored by the Macy Foundation are described: post-baccalaureate premedical fellowship programs, regional conferences, medical school programs, and black college programs. The need for high school directed…

Explains the need to encourage minority students to choose physics as the field for advanced work. Institutes were organized during summer, enrolling minority students to enrich their backgrounds. Results have been encouraging and more extensive planning is underway. (PS)

Describes a program to interest American Indians in careers in the earth sciences. (BR)

Discusses the Fermilab summer program for minority students, its evolution, selection of student participants, selection of student assignments, living arrangements, salaries, and the impact of the program. (SL)

Describes the progress and current activities of the Minority Participation Program which was established to assist minority students in the geological sciences, to introduce new programs in predominantly minority colleges, and to retrain as geological scientists minority faculty members. Presents tabulated data on enrollment patterns of minority…

Discusses a unique experimental program for training chemical technicians in New York with emphasis upon expansion of minority participation in sciences. Included are descriptions of goals, educational methods, instructional materials, and program's content. (CC)

Describes and evaluates strategies used to increase minority enrollment at Michigan State University's College of Engineering. The three-year (1974-77) program focused on the development of recruitment programs and the design of innovative curricula and counseling programs to retain students until they successfully graduated from engineering. (SK)