-High quality early childhood program participation

-Encourage academic achievement in earlier grades

-Encourage adolescents to be engaged in school

-Encourage adolescents to have high academic self-concept, global self-esteem

-Encourage girls to engage in activities that nurture their abilities in math and science

-Nurture achievement and test-taking skills in low SES students, low performing youth, and students of racial/ethnic and language minority groups.

-Encourage participation in extracurricular activities

-Encourage working teens to work fewer than 20 hours per week

Peers

-Discourage adolescents from hanging out with peers extensively in unstructured, unsupervised settings

Family Level

-Support policies that are effective in decreasing poverty and improving socioeconomic well-being of low-income families

-Support programs that are effective in increasing educational attainment of adults/parents

-Encourage parents to become involved in their adolescents' lives by communicating directly with them and monitoring their activities.

-Support child support enforcement and encourage father involvement

-Support programs that are effective in improving home environment during early years

-Promote more schools with higher average SES

-Encourage comprehensive public schools to adopt some of the structural features and practices of Catholic schools and magnet public schools (more fluid tracking system, cooperative, communitarian school climate, etc.)

-Encourage secondary school teachers to have content specific training or certification, especially in the subject of math

-Encourage programs found to increase representation of teachers of both sexes, and from diverse racial and ethnic, socioeconomic backgrounds

Societal/Policy Level

-Support policies effective in increasing marital stability

-Encourage preschool aged children to watch educational programming

-Service learning programs