Pathways to Education: An Integrated Approach to Helping At-Risk High School Students

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Oreopoulos, Philip; Brown, Robert S.; Lavecchia, Adam M.
• 署名单位: University of Toronto; National Bureau of Economic Research; Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR); University of Ottawa
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-3808
• DOI: 10.1086/692713
• 发表日期: 2017
• 页码: 947-984
• 关键词: SKILL FORMATION; randomized-trial; TECHNOLOGY; inference; POOR

摘要

Pathways to Education is a comprehensive support program developed to improve academic outcomes of high school students from very poor social-economic backgrounds. The program includes proactive mentoring, daily tutoring, and group activities, combined with intermediate and long-term incentives to reinforce a minimum degree of mandatory participation; it began in 2001 for entering grade 9 students living in Regent Park, the largest public housing project in Toronto. It expanded in 2007 to include two additional Toronto projects. Comparing students from other housing projects before and after the introduction of the program, high school graduation and postsecondary enrollment rates rose dramatically for Pathways-eligible students, in some cases by more than 50 percent.