Basic Knowledge and Successful Behavior: A Summary of What College-bound Students Need to Know.

The Partnership for Reform in Science and Mathematics is a National Science Foundation-funded program administered by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia (USG). Georgia Southern University is a participant, and has partnerships with seven public school systems. University faculty and public school teachers clearly have very different teaching responsibilities, yet everyone wants students to succeed nationally and abroad. Georgia Southern faculty and their colleagues from the schools have developed a poster and a brochure that are designed to provide students, teachers, and parents with information concerning the kinds of knowledge, behaviors, and attitudes that university faculty expect students to possess when they enroll for their first semester. Recently gathered data suggest that larger numbers of high school students take more demanding science and math courses in PRESM-affiliated systems than in other school systems, and that larger numbers of students at PRISM institutions in the USG take math courses than is the case at non-PRISM institutions. Maintaining constructive relationships among USG science and math faculty and public schools should enhance these early trends. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]