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Hill, Kimberly A. – Educational Leadership, 2012
The author, principal at North Point High School of Science, Technology and Industry in Charles County, Maryland, describes how the school merges traditional academic classes with cutting-edge career and technical education courses to prepare students for the real world. Realizing that its traditional "vo-tech" model was undersubscribed…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Science Course Improvement Projects, Educational Improvement, Improvement Programs
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Hrabowski, Freeman A., III; Maton, Kenneth I. – Academe, 2009
In the late 1980s, the University of Maryland Baltimore County launched a major initiative to find out why more students were not succeeding in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics--known collectively as the STEM disciplines--despite the university's long-standing commitment to those fields. A review of student data revealed that the…
Descriptors: African American Students, Focus Groups, Minority Groups, Organizational Culture