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Youth and Schools

(Research projects are listed alphabetically by last name of principal or lead investigator under the primary research focus.)

GEAR UP

Joseph Cunningham

Joe Cunningham directed Nashville GEAR UP, which was a collaborative effort of Vanderbilt University and the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools to work with teachers, students and parents to enhance the chances that students in poverty will successfully complete high school and go on to post-secondary education. The foci of the efforts was on building system capacity in middle and high schools through professional development work with teachers, providing counseling services to middle and high school students, fostering and sustaining parent involvement in schools and in their children's education, increasing the expectations and aspirations of students and their families, and providing information and support for post-secondary education.
Funding: U.S. Department of Education, Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, United Way of Metropolitan Nashville



Peabody College Service-Learning Mentoring Program

Carolyn Hughes

Vanderbilt students served as mentors to youth attending high-poverty high schools and afterschool programs. The model of student support derived from Bronfenbrenner's (1977) concept of individual-small, group-organizational-community levels of interaction and the views held by Masten, Coatsworth (1998) and others that individual school-home-community protective factors contribute to building resilience in the face of adverse conditions. Student populations addressed included both at-risk students and students with disabilities.
Funding: Corporation for National and Community Service