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Talent Search: Providing Support Services to Low-Income Middle and High School Students to Increase College Enrollment

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Intervention Details

Subject

Non-Academic Area

Academic Programs

N/A

Duration

N/A

Grades

9, 10, 11, 12

Personnel

School Counselor

Intervention Summary

Talent Search is a program that serves both middle and high school students, primarily those who are low-income and whose parents did not complete a four-year college degree. The program targets students who are at risk of not completing high school or pursuing postsecondary education.

Statistical Finding Summary

Positive effect on completing school

Source

U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, What Works Clearinghouse. (2006). Talent Search. Retrieved from https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/WWC/intervention/320.

Data Sample by Population

These charts show the characteristics of the student populations studied. When assessing programs, you may want to prioritize interventions that yielded success in a similar demographic environment as your school or district.

The subgroup population data as studied here are not available. That means that while this study may work well for your setting, we cannot say based on the published study and results from our system’s reading of that study what the school/district subgroup characteristics were when evaluated here.