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Education
By Zakia Redd, M.P.P., Jennifer Brooks, Ph.D., and Ayelish M. McGarvey
TABLE 1 TABLE 2 TABLE 3 TABLE 4 TABLE 5 TABLE 6 TABLE 7
Academic Self-Concept Achievement Motivation School Engagement Educational Expectations Academic Achievement High School Completion/Reduce High School Dropout Postsecondary Attendance and Attainment
Education

  Experimental Research Studies Non-Experimental Research Studies
Postsecondary Attendance and Attainment
- Mentoring programs

-Youth development programs with incorporated academic supports, programming

-Vocational programs

-High quality early child care program participation

Individual Level

-Increase participation in extracurricular activities during high school

-Discourage early fertility/ parenthood

-Encourage adolescents' educational aspirations during secondary schooling years

-Discourage long hours of work (over 15-20 hours per week) during the school year among high school youth

-Encourage psychological well-being and positive scholastic behavioral characteristics among male adolescents (academic self-concepts, school effort, aspirations, grades)

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

-Encourage children of mothers born outside of the United States to attend college

Neighborhood/Community/School

-Encourage adolescents to take classes in the academic and college prep tracks

-Encourage academic achievement during secondary schooling years

-Encourage high school students to take rigorous high level math and science classes and other classes required by colleges

-Encourage public schools to adopt structures or practices found to be effective in Catholic and public magnet schools.

-Encourage schools that are racially and ethnically representative


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