The Pathways to Education program is a prominent example of a community-driven, comprehensive youth-support program developed to improve academic outcomes among those entering high school from disadvantaged backgrounds
Program Providing a Pathway out of Poverty for Disadvantaged Youth
Pathways to Education, an educational support program for disadvantaged students, has had a significant effect on high-school graduation and postsecondary enrolment, finds a report released today by the C.D. Howe Institute. In "Evaluating Student Performance in Pathways to Education," authors Philip Oreopoulos, Robert S. Brown, and Adam Lavecchia, find encouraging results, so far, for Pathways sites in Toronto.