The science of science education
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More minority students need to be lured into the sciences. One program has been a resounding success.

By Irving R. Epstein

January 3 2010

At most universities, freshman chemistry, a class I've taught for nearly 40 years, is the first course students take on the road to a career in the health professions or the biological or physical sciences. It's a tough course, and for many students it's the obstacle that keeps them from majoring in science. This is particularly true for minority students.

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Program Provides Blueprint for Recruiting Minorities to Science and Engineering


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The MIE Fact Book 2005, developed under an NSF grant to Systemic Research, Inc., provides detailed results about each institution's recruitment and support of students and faculty. Electronic copies or free printed copies (with an accompanying DVD) can be accessed at http://www.systemic.com/mie/index.cfm?include=pubs;


The Model Institutions for Excellence Program's Successful Leadership in STEM Education, which is available at http://www.ihep.org/ and


The Science Diversity Center (http://sciencediversitycenter.org/ The center is a Web-based comprehensive one-stop STEM educational resource tool designed to help federal agencies that fund STEM education initiatives share timely program and project information in a user-friendly format with students and others; share information on strategies that address the nation's STEM workforce needs, and foster increased participation in STEM fields by individuals from groups currently underrepresented in STEM.