Into the Loop:University-K-12 Alliance for Computer Science Education for African-American, Latino/a, and Female Students in the Second Largest School District in the Country (BPC)

该项目的目的是提高非裔美国人、拉丁裔/a和女高中生在计算机领域的参与度和成就率。该项目特别关注洛杉矶联合学区，这是美国第二大和最多样化的学区之一。目前，大多数高中计算机科学课程、课程和教学法都不能吸引学生在计算领域进行创新、跨学科的应用。计算机科学的管道正在流失传统上在大学之前未被充分代表的学生。在大学里，在国家授予博士学位的计算机科学和工程系，只有7%的计算机科学学位授予非洲裔美国人和拉丁裔/AS男女，只有17%授予女性(陶尔比调查，2006)。这个项目建立在项目团队过去参与的几项成功活动的基础上，这些活动涉及为目标学生在计算机科学AP考试中取得成功做准备。虽然全国都认识到AP考试可能会受到狭隘的CS编程观点的影响，但重要的是要确保所有学生都有平等的机会学习AP CS，并且教师有资格教授这门大学预科课程。然而，此外，项目组正在扩大他们的活动范围，以超越为AP所做的重点准备。他们将参与设计更具吸引力的计算机科学课程，这些课程也将符合条件，成为大学准备/职业准备的新核心课程的一部分。该项目的执行计划涉及：在向代表人数不足的学生扩大严格的学习机会的过程中涉及什么；学校必须提供什么，以最大限度地使学生在这些更高层次的学习机会中取得成功；联盟的作用及其如何建立和维持；以及学区和个别学校在多大程度上接受或可能抵制这些创新。该项目旨在扩大对计算机的参与，考虑到城市教育和教育改革的更大背景。该项目确定了引入和维持计算机科学教育改革的国家模式可以围绕的关键因素。

The purpose of this project is to improve the participation and success of African-American, Latino/a, and Female high school students in computing. In particular, the project concentrates on the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the second largest and one of the most diverse school districts in the country.Most current high school computer science courses, curriculum, and pedagogy do not engage students with innovative, interdisciplinary applications in computing. The computer science pipeline is losing traditionally underrepresented students prior to college. By college, at the nations PhD-granting departments of computer science and engineering, just 7% of the computer science degrees are awarded to African-American and Latino/as of both sexes and just 17% to women (Taulbee Survey, 2006).This project builds on several successful activities from the past that the project team engaged in involving preparation of the targeted students for success in the computer science AP exam. While there is national recognition that the AP exam may suffer from a narrow programming view of CS, it is important to assure that there is equal access to AP CS for all students and that teachers are qualified to teach this college preparatory course. In addition, however, the project team is expanding the scope of their activities to transcend focused preparation for AP. They will participate in the design of more engaging computer science courses that will also qualify as part of a new core college-prepared/career-ready curriculum. The implementation plan for this project addresses what is involved in the process of expanding rigorous learning opportunities to underrepresented students; what schools must provide to maximize student success in these higher-level learning opportunities and what more is needed; the role of alliances and how they are built and sustained; and the extent to which a school district and individual schools either embrace the innovations or possibly push back against them. This project to broaden participation in computing takes into account the larger context of urban education and educational reform. This project identifies critical factors around which a national model for introducing and sustaining computer science education reform can coalesce.