Kids Seek Cure For Kids

孩子们为孩子们寻求治疗

• 批准号: 7269046
• 负责人: EMIL BOGENMANN
• 金额: $ 18.16万
• 依托单位: CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-06-01 至 2012-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7269046
• 关键词: Kids; Seek; Cure

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The United States has become largely dependent on a foreign workforce; this is strikingly becoming truer in academia and business/industry, given that the underrepresented minority population in the U.S. continues to grow exponentially, and high school and college graduation rates for minority students fail to improve. By 2025, more than 50% of all American high school (HS) students will be the children of today's American minorities-of those, 75% will be Hispanic. Only approximately 50% of current Hispanic students graduate with a high school diploma, compared to nearly 90% of White and/or Asian students. Barriers to success are many, and include cultural and socioeconomic disadvantages; public school systems without the resources to build on their students' potential; and lack of educational, extracurricular opportunities that historically have been available to successful, motivated students from middle/upper class school districts or private schools. Our minority students are an untapped resource, and it is imperative that we begin focusing on their academic and personal success, as it directly impacts our nation's position in the current and future global economy. We hypothesize that scientific achievement of underrepresented minority students will improve if scientific knowledge is communicated to them in a relevant and stimulating context and is reinforced by hands on experience in a research laboratory. We will test this hypothesis with the following specific aims: 1) We will recruit student interns from Los Angeles County high schools and provide them with active research laboratory experience under the mentorship of highly successful research training faculties. 2) We will provide the interns with lectures that instruct scientific knowledge and fundamental principals of scientific inquiry using pediatric disease models (case-based instruction). 3) We will assess learning of the scientific subject and evaluate the educational and career choices of students following completion of the program.

描述（由申请人提供）： 美国在很大程度上依赖于外国劳动力;这在学术界和商业/工业界变得更加真实，因为美国代表性不足的少数民族人口继续呈指数级增长，少数民族学生的高中和大学毕业率未能提高。到2025年，超过50%的美国高中（HS）学生将是今天美国少数民族的孩子，其中75%将是西班牙裔。目前只有大约50%的西班牙裔学生毕业时获得高中文凭，而白色和/或亚洲学生的这一比例接近90%。成功的障碍有很多，包括文化和社会经济方面的不利因素;公立学校系统没有资源来开发学生的潜力;缺乏教育和课外机会，而这些机会在历史上一直提供给来自中/上层阶级学区或私立学校的成功、积极的学生。我们的少数族裔学生是一种尚未开发的资源，我们必须开始关注他们的学术和个人成功，因为它直接影响我们国家在当前和未来全球经济中的地位。我们假设，科学成就的代表性不足的少数民族学生将提高，如果科学知识传达给他们在一个相关的和刺激的背景下，并加强了动手的经验，在一个研究实验室。我们将测试这一假设与以下具体目标：1）我们将招募学生实习生从洛杉矶县高中，并为他们提供积极的研究实验室的经验下，非常成功的研究培训学院的指导。2)我们将为实习生提供讲座，指导科学知识和使用儿科疾病模型进行科学探究的基本原则（基于案例的指导）。3)我们将评估科学学科的学习，并评估学生在完成课程后的教育和职业选择。