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Boston Science Partnership

image for project Boston Science Partnership For more information about the Boston Science Partnership, please see our website: http://www.bostonscience.org.

The Boston Science Partnership (BSP) is comprised of the following core partners: the Boston Public Schools (BPS), Northeastern University (NEU) and the University of Massachusetts Boston (UMB). The Harvard Medical School and the College Board participate as supporting partners.

The goals of the Partnership are the following:
-- To raise BPS student achievement in science;
-- To significantly improve the quality of BPS science teachers;
-- To increase the number of students who succeed in higher-level courses in science and who are admitted to and retained in university science and engineering programs;
-- To improve science teaching both in BPS and at the universities; and
-- To institutionalize these changes so that the Boston Science Partnership and its work will be sustained.

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Invitation to Press Conference and Live Webcast: UMass Boston Hosts Urban America's Science Report Card

Download Full Press Release Date: Thursday, February 24, 2011 Time: 10-11 AM, EST Location: University of Massachusetts, Boston Campus Center Ballroom 100 Morrissey Blvd. Boston, MA 02125 Live Webcast: Visit…


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Boston Science Partnership Video Highlight: AP Summer Bridge Program

This 6-minute video highlights BSP's program to engage students interested in STEM by giving them a head start on AP Biology, Chemistry, and Physics courses, which are held in science laboratories at local universities.

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Student Success in Student Success in the BSP: Eight Years of Data, Evaluation and Research

Over eight years of designing, planning, piloting and running a set of interventions, the BSP has aimed to improve student success by reaching their classroom teachers across the district. The…


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Tenure and Promotion Review as a Lever for Institutional Change

This paper addresses the following claim(s): "The claims that we make through this presentation are supported by existing literature and through experience with the UMass Boston model. There is also…

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