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Minority Student Pipeline MSP -- (MSP)2

image for project Minority Student Pipeline MSP The Minority Student Pipeline Math Science Partnership (MSP)2 is led by Bowie State University (BSU) with the additional core partners of the Prince George's County Public Schools (PGCPS), the Prince George's Community College (PGCC), the University of Maryland College Park (UMCP), the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI), and the University System of Maryland (USM). (MSP)2 proposes to establish a strong, multifaceted partnership among the essential P-16 players in one of the largest minority-majority counties in the country, Prince George's County, Maryland, in order to expand the minority student pipeline in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields in higher education.

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"We can't really talk about the whys of magnetism now"

This poster examines how a teacher engages her students in inquiry both before and after a high stakes State test. Before the state assessment, Ms. J felt pressure to prepare…


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Teacher attention leading to student inquiry: A case study of an emergent 5th grade magnetism unit

In a fifth grade classroom, a planned 1-day inquiry turned into a 7-day detailed investigation in which students engaged in numerous scientific practices such a mechanistic reasoning and coordinating theory…

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Strengthening the Early-College Minority Student Pipeline in Science with a Multi-faceted Program

This paper addresses the following claim(s): "Multiple different opportunities for secondary students to take early-college and dual-enrollment science courses increase the likelihood that students will attend college (2- or 4-year)…


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All Our Students Thinking

"Critical thinking is the sort of mental activity that uses facts to plan, order, and work toward an end; seeks meaning or an explanation; is self-reflective; and uses reason to...

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Resources

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Partnership Rubric

PRISM MSP shares a tool that the project has found useful "for rating aspects of a strategy or partnership where numeric tabulations do not always apply, but where there are...



Higher Education Partners

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School District Partners

  • Prince George's County Public Schools