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Advancing success for Black men in college.

Yaffe, D..
UIID-RP: 1
2015;

African-American boys and men lag well behind their peers of other races on many indicators of social and educational well-being.

A study of the influence of the new careers in nurinsg program on the culture of participating schools of nursins.

Millett, C.M., Kevelson, M.J.C..
UIID-RP: 12
2015;

In 2014, ETS conducted a study investigating how the New Careers in Nursing (NCIN) program may have influenced the culture of participating schools of nursing. Select schools of nursing received grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to provide...

Stereotype threat, inquirign about test takers' race and gender, and performance on low-stakes tests in a large -scale assessment.

Stricker, L.J., Rock, D.A., Bridgeman, B..
UIID-RP: 16
2015;

This study explores stereotype threat on low-stakes tests used in a large-scale assessment, math and reading tests in the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS). Issues identified in laboratory research (though not observed in studies of high-stakes tests) were...

Identifying and supporting productive STEM programs in out-of-school settings.

National Research Council.
UIID-RP: 57
2015;

More and more young people are learning about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in a wide variety of afterschool, summer, and informal programs. At the same time, there has been increasing awareness of the value of such programs...

Advancing Diversity in the US Industrial Science and Engineering Workforce: Summary of a Workshop.

Didion, C., Guenther, R.S..
UIID-RP: 49
2014;

Thousands of gifted individuals, including women and underrepresented minorities, remain a disproportionally small fraction of those in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers. Industry, as the largest employer category of those with STEM backgrounds, stands to benefit considerably...

Career Choices of Female Engineers.

National Academy of Engineering..
UIID-RP: 51
2014;

Despite decades of government, university, and employer efforts to close the gender gap in engineering, women make up only 11 percent of practicing engineers in the United States. What factors influence women graduates' decisions to enter the engineering workforce...

Black male teens: Moving to success in the high school years.

Yaffe, D..
UIID-RP: 2
2013;

During the high school years, teens lay the groundwork for their future lives, in college and in the world of work. But too many African-American males spend those crucial years battling obstacles that can jeopardize their future success.

Seeking solutions: Maximizing American Talent by Advancing Women of Color in Academia: Summary of a Conference.

Rapporteur, K.M..
UIID-RP: 42
2013;

Seeking Solutions: Maximizing American Talent by Advancing Women of Color in Academia is the summary of a 2013 conference convened by the Committee on Women in Science, Engineering and Medicine of the National Research Council to discuss the current...

New Seed to Academe: An extension servies model.

Chubin, D.E., Sevo, R..
UIID-RP: 36
2011;

This report discusses extension services as a model for catalyzing change in educational practice.

The Black-White achievement gap.

Barton, P.E., Coley, R.J..
UIID-RP: 5
2010;

This report is about understanding the periods of progress and the periods of stagnation in changes in the achievement gap that have occurred over the past several decades. We try to understand what might have contributed to the progress...

Telling the stories of the BPC Alliances: How one NSF program is chaning the face of computing.

Chubin, D.E., Johnson, R.Y..
UIID-RP: 38
2010;

A special array of NSF-funded projects known as the Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) Alliances are changing the face of coputing. These stories are instructive about changing the conditions for education, high school to postdoctoral.

Leveling the field on math and science tests for students with learning disabilities.

Stone, E., Cook, L..
UIID-RP: 7
2009;

In K-12 education, state standards-based assessments lead to evaluations and comparisons at the school and state levels. Because these tests are used to hold schools accountable, their scores should be meaningful for all test takers. In this article —...

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