outcomes. These initial educational handicaps show up in higher drop-out rates and youth joblessness, greatly limiting these … the nature of skills supplied by the education sector and the skills demanded by employers. A greater role for youth …

informal mentoring relationships between students and teachers, counselors, and coaches. Using longitudinal data from a … nationally representative sample of adolescents, we explore the nature and consequences of natural mentoring relationships by …

Mentoring programs such as Big Brothers Big Sisters of America have been providing positive role models and building … social skills for more than a century. However, most formal mentoring programs are relatively novel and researchers have only … recently begun to rigorously evaluate their impact on changing at-risk youth’s perspectives and providing opportunities for …

examines the skill-enhancing effects of several youth programs and demonstrations, with an emphasis on how well these efforts …