NASA's Elementary and Secondary Education Program Review and Critique (2008) / Chapter Skim
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2 NASA's Education Programs
2 NASA's Education Programs
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education. This chapter provides an overview of both the recent history of NASA's education programs and its current approach to K‑12 STEM education.
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For K‑12 projects, there were two main NASA units that funded and managed projects: the headquarters Office of Education and the science and technology enterprises, later renamed mission directorates. The projects under each of these two main units were funded through different mechanisms and operated somewhat independently of each other. The Office of Education receives federal funding for specific projects in its portfolio, while the science and technology enterprises designate a certain level of funding from their mission or research budgets to support related education activities.
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These shifts complicate the task of assessing the impact of NASA's work in K‑12 education activities over time. BOX 2‑1 NASA Education Program: History of Key Changes ~1962 The Aerospace Education Services Project (AESP)
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2004 An agencywide reorganization is implemented, as suggested by the President's Commission on Implementation of the U.S. Space Exploration Policy, under which the four mission directorates and an Office of Educa tion were established; space science and earth science are merged in a new Science Mission Directorate.
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Adena Williams Loston to the position of associate administrator for education. Authority for overseeing and managing national or multiregional education programs, and for a common strategy for education projects in the science and technology enterprises and NASA centers became centralized in the Education Enterprise managed by Dr.
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The OSS funded four education projects: Initiative to Develop Education through Astronomy and Space Science (IDEAS) , Mission Education and Public Outreach (EPO)
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The forums coordinated the efforts of individual space science missions, and the broker/facilitators assisted space scientists in becoming involved in education through the creation of partnerships with educators. In contrast with the OSS program, the OES education program was a historically more modest and traditional suite of activities and resource materials (about 50–75 activities per year during 2001–2005)
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That report led to a new plan for NASA's organization, which restructured the agency's strategic enterprises into four mission directorates, reduced the number of functions reporting directly to the NASA administrator, and retained an Office of Education with responsibility for overseeing all education activities in NASA. A detailed description of these changes and their impact is provided in the following section.
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: Exploration Systems Directorate, Space Operations Directorate, Science Directorate, and Aeronautics Research Directorate. The various projects previously managed by the headquarters Office of Education, while still officially Office of Education projects, would be managed instead by one of the NASA centers.
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NASA Shared Services Center Langley Research Center Strategic Communications Marshall Space Flight Center Communications Planning Education Stennis Space Center Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs Public Affairs * In accordance with law, the offices of Diversity and Equal Opportunity and Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization maintain reporting relationships to the Deputy Administrator and Administrator.
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. Organization of Education Projects All education programs in the headquarters Office of Education, the mission directorates, and the centers are expected to achieve at least one of the following three overarching outcomes: Outcome 1: Contribute to the development of the STEM workforce in disciplines needed to achieve NASA's strategic goals, through a port folio of investments.
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The education strategic coordination framework is also based on a philosophy that encourages diversity, as well as six overarching principles that contain elements essential to high-quality and successful education programs: relevance to the education community, content from NASA resources, diversity of participants, reliable evaluation, continuity from program to program, and partnerships with external partners. Organizational and Management Structure The organizational and management structure (Figure 2‑3)
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10. fig 2-3 cation, the ECC, the Office of Education, the mission directorates, and the new center education offices.
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The Mission Directorates The mission directorates embed education activities within their research and development programs and flight missions, ensure meaningful collaboration between the NASA science and engineering community and the education community, coordinate their programs with the headquarters Office of Education and the centers, ensure program evaluation using ECC criteria, and provide data to the central agency education database. The mission directorates may also develop education related partnerships specific to their disciplines and needs, including discipline-specific interactions with other federal agencies.
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Elementary and Secondary Education Program The headquarters Office of Education projects are organized into five programs: elementary and secondary education, higher education, informal education, e-Education, and the Minority University Research and Education Program (MUREP)
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Overall, the majority of K‑12 projects in the headquarters Office of Education are in the Elementary and Secondary Education Program, with a small number K‑12 projects in the Informal Education Program, the e‑Education Program, and MUREP. As noted in Chapter 1, this committee's study was focused primarily on the projects in the Elementary and Secondary Program.
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Mission Directorate Education Projects The K‑12 education projects in the mission directorates are not accounted for in the budget information discussed above. Most of these projects produce curriculum enhancement products, support professional development for teachers, or engage students in mission-related research activities.
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c NASA Student Involvement Program 639 1,235 34 0 0 0 Flight Projects 1,810 1,170 2,037 0 2,000 1,100 Small Programs 987 1,005 266 0 0 0 Education Program Support 5,898 16,606 7,015 225 0 0 Congressionally Directed Appropriations (site specific) 3,123 4,390 8,283 7,200 NA NA Corporate G&Ad/Institutional Investments/Center M&Oe 980 2,359 5,447 1,244 -- -- Subtotal $32,600 $55,819 $46,444 $29,281 $33,400 $29,300 Higher Education Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Researchc $7,221 $9,350 $11,522 $12,340 $10,000 $10,000 Science and Technology Scholarship Project NA 3,029 1,134 0 0 0 National Space Grant and College Fellowship Programc 23,778 24,920 26,201 29,806 28,800 29,000 Undergraduate Student Researchers Project 0 0 616 0 3,700 3,700 Graduate Student Researchers Project 7,388 6,168 4,040 4,875 8,700 8,700 NASA Faculty Fellowship Project 3,164 3,325 0 0 0 0 Congressionally Directed Appropriations (site specific)
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6,048 10,673 10,912 31,567 NA NA Corporate G&Ad/Institutional Investments/Center M&Oe 587 883 319 1,941 -- -- Subtotal $7,035 $13,202 $13,174 $33,992 $2,400 $1,700 MUREP Saturday Academies $8,232 $970 $970 $0 $0 $0 Network Resources Training Sites 2,453 2,450 458 325 0 0 Model Institutions of Excellence 1,758 2,400 2,064 0 0 0 Partnerships Awards for Integration of Research 2,200 900 900 681 0 0 Institutional Research Awards 7,040 1,000 0 0 0 0 University Research Center 10,200 22,288 14,263 8,390 18,200 14,700 Faculty Awards for Research 4,225 3,537 2,779 995 1,800 4,400 Earth Science Collaboration 475 630 400 0 0 0 Curriculum Improvement Partnership Award 10,428 3,500 2,349 987 2,500 2,500 Space Science Collaboration 2,759 3,665 3,330 0 0 0 Math, Science Teacher and Curriculum Enhancement 93 1,995 533 0 0 0 Program Tribal Colleges and Universities 2,138 1,400 1,371 886 1,900 1,700 NASA Science and Technology Institute for Minority 991 727 1,194 558 1,200 1,100 Institutions (was Research Academy) 39 continued
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. bThrough fiscal 2006, this program was part of MUREP; the change was done to more appropriately align the project with the function program area addressed, elementary and secondary education.
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. The report estimates that the mission directorate education projects received $83 million in fiscal 2006, approximately $35 million of which supported K‑12 education activities.
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This change in the management of the headquarters Office of Education projects reflects the agencywide restructuring effort that has moved direct project management from headquarters to the centers. However, the headquarters Office of Education still retains responsibility for ensuring coherence and coordination among all NASA education projects.
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The mission directorates are responsible for including education components in their research and development programs and flight missions, implementing the contents pecific activities for which they provide funding, collaborating between the NASA science and engineering community and the education community, and providing performance data to the headquarters Office of Education. The center education offices are responsible for implementing NASA education projects, as well as planning and implementing center-funded education programs.
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