Conference Proposal: A Study Group on Pacific Island Issues in STEM Education

自2001年《不让一个孩子掉队法》通过以来，许多资源有限的学校受到这项立法的严重影响，其中包括太平洋岛屿的学校。国家科学基金会响应白宫关于亚裔美国人和太平洋岛民的倡议（见www.aapi.gov），于2003年11月举办了一次讲习班，以确定所有亚裔美国人和太平洋岛民的成功和挑战，从而开始解决这一问题。拟议中的会议将汇集来自美国太平洋岛屿管辖区的知识渊博的土著专业人员（马歇尔群岛共和国、密克罗尼西亚联邦、北方马里亚纳群岛联邦和帕劳共和国）、关岛和夏威夷州，沿着来自新西兰、汤加、斐济和阿拉斯加的主要参与者一道，解决太平洋人口的STEM教育、评估和劳动力需求，执行一项重要的外勤建议它们将借鉴最近努力取得的成功，阐明一套必要的指导原则，以确保太平洋环境中的教育工作者和评价人员的良好做法标准，并可指导任何致力于满足太平洋岛屿学生需求的学校的做法/决定。

Since the passing of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, many schools with limited resources have been heavily impacted by this legislation, among them the schools in the Pacific Islands. NSF began addressing this problem by holding a workshop to identify successes and challenges for all Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) in November, 2003, in response to the White House Initiative on AAPI (See www.aapi.gov.) The proposed conference will assemble knowledgeable indigenous professionals from a range of U.S. Pacific Island jurisdictions (Republic of Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, and the Republic of Palau), Guam, and the state of Hawaii, along with key players from New Zealand, Tonga, Fiji and Alaska, to address STEM education, evaluation, and workforce needs among Pacific populations, fulfilling an important recommendation from the field. They will draw from the successes emerging from recent efforts to articulate a set of guiding principles needed to ensure standards for good practice among educators and evaluators in Pacific settings and that can guide practice/decisions in any school working to serve the needs of Pacific Island students.