ROLE: Closing the Race Gap in Math and Science Achievement through Improving Parental Involvement in the Course Selection and Placement Process

该项目的目的是通过发展有效管理子女教育事业的技能和战略，加强非裔美国父母对高中生子女的参与。它将通过发展社会和组织基础设施，使父母继续参与教育事业，建立与服务非裔美国儿童的学校合作的能力。它寻求增加黑人学生在更高水平的数学和科学课程中的入学率和成就率，以缩小数学和科学赛道排名中的种族差距。它使用准实验设计来实施一系列社区工作坊，旨在提高儿童在科学和数学方面的知识、技能和策略。这项研究将创造一种旨在改变学生成绩的干预措施。它将进行人种学工作，以绘制出进入更高级别数学课程的成功途径。它将利用这些研究的结果在黑人社区内实施工作制，并对由于选课减少而导致的成就增长进行统计分析。

The purpose of this project is to enhance African American parental involvement with high school student children by developing skills and strategies for effectively managing the educational careers of their children. It would create a capacity for collaborations with the schools that service African American children by developing the social and organizational infrastructure for continued parental involvement in educational careers. It seeks to increase enrollment and success of Black students in higher-level mathematics and science courses to diminish the race gap in math and science track placements. It uses a quasi-experimental design to implement a series of community workshops designed to enhance knowledge, skills, and strategies for managing placements of children in science and math tracks.The research would create an intervention designed to change the outcome of students. It would conduct ethnographic work to map successful pathways to enrollment in higher-level math courses. It would use findings from these studies to implement workships within the Black communities, and conduct statistical analysis of the growth in achievement as a result of the reduction in course taking.