Ventures In Science: Insuring Opportunity Now (V.I.S.I.O.N.)

科学风险投资：立即确保机会 (V.I.S.I.O.N.)

• 批准号: 9350545
• 负责人: Maxine Bleich
• 金额: $ 447万
• 依托单位: Ventures in Education
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1993
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1993-07-01 至 1998-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9350545&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Ventures; Science; Insuring; Opportunity; Now

The Ventures In education program is built on a successful twelve-year experience of establishing academic rigor in poorly performing high schools. It is based on the fundamental premise that all children can master a rigorous curriculum--one that provides adequate preparation for careers in a high technology society. Ventures will work with seventy economically disadvantaged senior and junior high schools in five geographic locations, to implement school-wide an academically rigorous, science- intensive course of study. (The students enrolled in these schools are from minority and economically disadvantaged backgrounds.) A comprehensive approach will be employed attending both to the content of the science and mathematics courses, and to the development of the academic skills underlying successful performance. An extensive program of teacher enhancement will include direct in-the classroom guidance and assistance. This intellectually demanding curriculum will be supplemented by school-based summer programs for entering 9th- and/or 10th- graders and a residential college-based summer program for rising 11th- and 12th-graders. The participating seventy senior and junior high schools are located in Alabama, Arkansas, New York City, Washington, D.C., and on the Navajo Reservation. When the programs are fully implemented, they will enroll a total of 40,000 students and will graduate annually 10,000 youngsters. Each year, of those 10,000 graduates, 25 percent--or 2,000-3,000 students--will have completed a rigorous college preparatory program, designed to enable them to succeed in college courses necessary for careers in science, engineering or mathematics. Most of these students will be from minority groups that currently are under-represented in the scientific labor force. Thus, Ventures will significantly advance the NSF objective of reducing, or eliminating, the gap in minority science participation before the year 2000. In addition to providing an excellent education to thousands of America's future scientists, the project seeks to seed a national model which will move the public schools from the current phase of failure and frustration to one of solid academic success. By institutionalizing rigorous science curricula in seventy schools in five geographically and ethnically diverse sites, Ventures intends to crystalize the reform agenda around the issues of academic rigor and excellence for all students.

风险投资教育项目建立在12年在表现不佳的高中建立学术严谨性的成功经验之上。它基于一个基本前提，即所有的孩子都能掌握严格的课程，为在高科技社会的职业生涯做好充分的准备。Ventures将与五个地理位置的70所经济条件较差的高中和初中合作，在全校范围内实施学术严谨、科学密集的课程。（这些学校招收的学生都来自少数民族和经济条件差的家庭。）将采用综合的方法，既关注科学和数学课程的内容，也关注成功表现背后的学术技能的发展。一项广泛的教师提升计划将包括直接的课堂指导和帮助。这种对智力要求很高的课程将以学校为基础的暑期课程为9年级和/或10年级的新生提供补充，并以寄宿学院为基础的暑期课程为11年级和12年级的新生提供补充。参与的70所高中和初中分别位于阿拉巴马州、阿肯色州、纽约市、华盛顿特区和纳瓦霍保留地。这些项目全面实施后，总共将招收4万名学生，每年将有1万名青少年毕业。每年，在这1万名毕业生中，有25%，即2000 - 3000名学生将完成严格的大学预科课程，旨在使他们能够在科学、工程或数学领域的职业生涯中取得成功。这些学生中的大多数将来自目前在科学劳动力中代表性不足的少数群体。因此，风险投资项目将大大推进NSF在2000年之前减少或消除少数民族科学参与差距的目标。除了为成千上万的美国未来的科学家提供良好的教育外，该项目还寻求建立一个全国性的模式，使公立学校从目前的失败和挫折阶段转变为坚实的学术成功阶段。通过在五个地理和种族不同的地点的70所学校将严格的科学课程制度化，Ventures打算围绕所有学生的学术严谨性和卓越性问题，将改革议程具体化。