Program Profile: Boys and Girls Club - Project Learn

This is an out-of-school program designed to improve educational performance in adolescents.

Evidence Rating: Promising | One study

Date:

This is an out-of-school program designed to improve educational performance in adolescents. This program is rated Promising. The program showed a statistically significant positive effect on participants’ attainment of higher grades in math, reading, spelling, history, science, and social studies, and a higher attendance rate, compared with students who did not participate. However, there was no statistically significant difference between groups in English, writing, and geography grades.

A Promising rating implies that implementing the program may result in the intended outcome(s).

Date Created: July 17, 2024
Program Snapshot

Age: 10 - 14

Gender: Male, Female

Race/Ethnicity: White, Black, Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander, Other

Geography: Urban

Setting (Delivery): Other Community Setting

Program Type: Academic Skills Enhancement, Afterschool/Recreation, Truancy Prevention

Targeted Population: Truants/Dropouts

Current Program Status: Active

Program Developer:
Steven Schinke
D’Elbert and Selma Keenan Professor
Columbia University School of Social Work

1255 Amsterdam Avenue
NY 10027
United States

Phone: (212) 851-2276
Website(link is external)
Email

Program Developer:
Steven Schinke
D’Elbert and Selma Keenan Professor
Columbia University School of Social Work

1255 Amsterdam Avenue
NY 10027
United States

Phone: (212) 851-2276
Website(link is external)
Email