Sacramento Head Start Alumni Association

Educating America’s Youth: What Makes a Difference

Sep 18, 2002

We all have ideas about improving schools, but few of us know what the research says. According to this Child Trends review of the research, mentoring seems to offer the greatest potential for positively influencing a number of factors related to teens?’ adjustment to school. Early childhood education programs, small early elementary school classes, youth employment and development programs, cooperative learning strategies and career academies or small learning communities have also shown positive results.
http://www.childtrends.org/PDF/K4Brief.pdf