after the bell

The High School Survey of Student Engagement was conducted by researchers at Indiana University.
I found one excerpt from an interview especially interesting:
Yazzie-Mintz says the survey indicates students are just trying to get the diploma and leave:
“It’s as if the focus is so much on getting that degree, ending high
school, and going to [...]

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A conversation with Michael Summers described in the NYT tells about an undergraduate program at the University of Maryland – Baltimore County that recruits and nurtures minority scientists.  In addition to the main point of the article, which is that it is possible to activity promote minority participation in science at the undergraduate level, two [...]

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