-Encourage participation in activities that improve adolescents' academic achievement

-Encourage involvement in extracurricular activities

-Discourage drug use during adolescence parenthood (during middle or high school years)

-Discourage early fertility/parenthood (during middle or high school years)

-Encourage students to have high social psychological well-being self-esteem, perceived academic ability, educational aspirations

-Discourage problem behavior and aggressive behavior

-Discourage working long hours during school year (over 20 hours per week)

-Discourage working long hours in manufacturing and service fields during adolescence

-Decrease grade failure/repetition among students and increase effective alternate policies for students who are failing academically, so that grade retention is resorted to less

-Encourage adolescents from low SES backgrounds, especially low-income Latinos and Whites, to participate in programs designed to increase high school completion

Peers

-Encourage adolescents to befriend high achieving youth who aspire to graduate from high school

-Encourage antisocial adolescents to establish friendships with their peers

Family

-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

-Support programs that have been effective in improving marital stability

-Support programs that have been effective in aiding families with disabled heads

-Increase number of educational resources in homes

Neighborhood/Community/School

-Establish residence during childhood in mixed SES neighborhoods with low levels of students dropping out of high school

-Encourage enrollment in academic track

-Encourage public high schools to adopt similar structural practices as Catholic schools

-Establish smaller schools

-Discourage mobility between neighborhoods/schools during adolescence

Societal/Policy