Pilot Project to Improve Urban Elementary Science and Mathematics Education

工业、大学和博物馆的科学家和工程师将与克拉拉·穆罕默德修女学校的工作人员合作，加强所有年级的科学教学。修女穆罕默德学校位于新泽西州纽瓦克，是一所私立的、传统上是黑人的K-8学校。工作人员的发展将在整个学年和为期两周的全日制暑期讲习班中进行。该项目的合作伙伴包括新泽西理工学院的大学预科项目中心、AT&amp；T网络系统和贝尔实验室、新泽西海洋科学联盟和自由州立公园的科学技术中心。教师以及合作的科学家和工程师将开发课程模型和组件，以提供统一的、多年实践的科学课程，该课程将与学校的全部课程捆绑在一起。由合作伙伴分担的费用将占国家科学基金会资金的90%。

Industry, university, and museum scientists and engineers will work with the staff of the Sister Clara Muhammad School, a private, traditionally black K-8 school in Newark, New Jersey, to strengthen science teaching in all grades. Staff development will be carried out throughout the academic year and in full-time 2-week summer workshops. Partners with the school in the project include the Center for Pre-College Programs at New Jersey Institute of Technology, AT&T Networks Systems and Bell Laboratories, the New Jersey Marine Science Consortium, and the Sci-Tech Center at Liberty State Park. The teachers and the collaborating scientists and engineers will develop curricular models and components to provide a unified, multi-year hands-on science program which will be tied into the total school curriculum. Cost sharing by the partners will total 90% of the National Science Foundation funding.