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Program Director:
Dr. Robert DeCresce
Associate Vice President and Chairman Department of Pathology
Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center
1653 West Congress Pkwy, Jelke 532
Chicago, IL 60612
3129428849
rdecresc@rush.edu
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Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center's award supports the Science and Math Excellence (SAME) Network, a pre-college science and math education initiative started by Rush in 1990. The Rush Department of Community Affairs created this program to give Chicago's inner-city students the "same" opportunities to excel in science and math as their counterparts in more affluent schools. Today the SAME Network works in collaboration with the Chicago Public Schools and Rush Medical College faculty and staff to conduct several separate, yet interrelated, programs to enhance education in 41 elementary and six high schools. Programs range from efforts to link families, community organizations, and Rush faculty with students pre-K through grade 16, to training teachers, to providing science-and-math-related job experience for high school students. Support is requested from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to enhance, expand, and evaluate five key SAME Network program components so that more children can benefit from superior science and math education and related programs. Program components were selected based on level of priority and potential to positively impact science and math education in Chicago schools.
1) 3-5 Year Old Program - Specially trained teachers introduce pre-school children to science and math through age-appropriate hands-on experiments and classroom activities.
2) Church-Based Science and Math Clubs - Clubs in community-based religious institutions provide students with a place to receive extra science and math instruction after school.
3) Parent Workshops - Rush Medical College faculty and Chicago Public Schools science specialists team-teach parents how to help their children with homework.
4) Teacher Workshops - Chicago Public Schools science specialists provide year-round opportunities for teachers to learn and practice how to bring the curriculum to live with hands-on/minds-on science and math instruction.
5) Renewing Education and
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