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）： 美国已经在很大程度上依赖外国劳动力。鉴于美国代表性不足的少数族裔人口不断成倍增长，而且少数民族学生的高中和大学毕业率未能提高，这在学术界和商业/行业中变得更加真实。到2025年，所有美国高中（HS）学生中有50％以上将成为当今美国少数民族的孩子，有75％的学生将是西班牙裔。现任西班牙裔学生中只有大约50％的高中文凭毕业，而白人和/或亚洲学生中有近90％。成功的障碍是许多，包括文化和社会经济的劣势；公立学校系统没有资源来建立学生的潜力；而且缺乏教育，课外机会，从历史上讲，来自中等/上层学区或私立学校的成功，有动力的学生可以使用。我们的少数族裔学生是一种未开发的资源，我们必须开始专注于他们的学术和个人成功，因为这直接影响了我们国家在当前和未来的全球经济中的地位。我们假设，如果在相关和刺激的背景下传达科学知识，对代表性不足的少数族裔学生的科学成就将有所改善，并且在研究实验室的经验中得到了强化。我们将以以下具体目的检验这一假设：1）我们将从洛杉矶县高中招募学生实习生，并在高度成功的研究培训能源的指导下为他们提供积极的研究实验室经验。 2）我们将提供实习生的讲座，以使用儿科疾病模型（基于病例的教学）来指导科学知识和科学探究的基本原理。 3）我们将评估科学学科的学习，并评估该计划完成后学生的教育和职业选择。