Mentoring programs, which pair youth with caring, non-parental adults with the goal of
promoting positive youth development, are an increasingly popular strategy for early …

The term 'non-cognitive skills' refers to a set of attitudes, behaviours, and strategies that are
thought to underpin success in school and at work, such as motivation, perseverance, and …

During the past decade, mentoring has proliferated as an intervention strategy for
addressing the needs that young people have for adult support and guidance throughout …

This meta-analysis summarized youth, academic, and workplace research on the potential
antecedents (demographics, human capital, and relationship attributes), correlates …

Background Regular school attendance is foundational to children's success but school
absenteeism is a common, serious, and highly vexing problem. Researchers from various …

Developmental relationships are characterized by reciprocal human interactions that
embody an enduring emotional attachment, progressively more complex patterns of joint …

" The Role of Risk: Mentoring Experiences and Outcomes for Youth with Varying Risk
Profiles" presents findings from the first large-scale study to examine how the levels and …

The influence of match length and re-matching on the effectiveness of school-based
mentoring was studied in the context of a national, randomized study of 1,139 youth in Big …

In this thought experiment, we explore how to make access to individualized instruction and
academic mentoring more equitable by taking tutoring to scale as a permanent feature of the …

There is an increasingly large disparity in college graduation rates among low-income and
first-generation college students. Research suggests that the main reason for this …