Helping Underprivileged Children Succeed: An After-School Program Encourages At-Risk Teens to Stay in School by Providing Tutoring, Therapy, and Enrichment
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Abstract
For many children, school simply doesn't work. Many underprivileged children have found that the 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. program fails to educate and prepare them for life. What if we created after-school programs, separate from schools, to help these children learn? What if children received close attention in a public after-school program that worked on motivating students, increasing their self-esteem, and making the program age-appropriate? And the location of the program would be in their own communities, so they felt comfortable and happy studying near home with folks like them. The idea is that the site would reduce dropouts by providing education in an alternative context, meeting the needs of students who fail to thrive in traditional education settings (Sarason, 2003). This is not just a hypothetical. Such a Dropout Prevention Center has existed for more than 20 years near Tel Aviv, Israel. Early funding for the Dropout Prevention Center, established in 1992, consisted mostly of donations. Now the Tel Aviv Department of Education funds the center. Its target population is students, ages 12 to 18 from underprivileged families, and its goal is to help those children develop and succeed in the mainstream. The center works to involve the students as it makes full use of those afternoon hours, five days per week, where youth tend to hang out and get into trouble. The dropout prevention program works out of Beit Dani in the Hatikva Quarter in southeast Tel Aviv. It is the largest community center in the Middle East. The hardscrabble surrounding neighborhood is composed of immigrants from Arab and North African countries, foreign workers, and illegal immigrants from Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, and is predominated by single-parent families. Nationally, Israel has only a 3.4% high school dropout rate, but it is much higher around Beit Dani. Before the center was established, few pupils in this area had the skills necessary to pass the Bagrut exams, a prerequisite for higher education in Israel. In 1992, only five Hatikva pupils passes the Bagrut; in 2013, before final numbers were tallied, it appears that 70 students would successfully complete the exams. In the last 20 years, about 1,000 Hatikva students graduated and completed the Bagrut exams. The center has become a supportive home for students--a nurturing, understanding place where they feel welcome and where their intellectual, cultural, educational, emotional, social, and vocational needs can be addressed with sensitivity and professionalism. The program helps students improve themselves by working through a number of aspects intended to improve their academic and personal skills that include: #1. One-on-one and small-group tutoring. Students receive preparation for the Bagrut exams to ensure that the number of high school graduates among the at-risk population increases. Moreover, the center offers reinforcement classes and social activities to develop social skills, improve self-image, and self-value by creating a network of mutual support. Children in the program receive daily reinforcement lessons in all the subjects: math, physics, English, grammar, etc. by trained teachers, with the help of volunteers who work one-on-one with students. Program leaders monitor their progress and cooperate with their schools and teachers in an effort to propel significant academic improvement and strengthen their self-esteem. #2. Junior high school-level (ages 13-15) computer classes in cooperation with Tel Aviv University. This program is intended to create an academic atmosphere to support students who have shown an interest in technology and to provide enrichment for gifted and talented students. The program provides an academic-study atmosphere in the neighborhood, using selected students as role models and promoting self-esteem and motivation in students while allowing them to fulfill their potential. …
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it