The Promise Fellow Program is an intervention designed to prevent dropout amongst students in grades 6-12 in Minnesota that show early warning signs of school disengagement. The program is led by interventionists known as Promise Fellows and provides three research-based supports that align with the National Dropout Prevention Center’s “Basic Core Strategies”: caring adults, service-learning, and out-of-school supports.

The Ohio Education Research Center (The Ohio State University) evaluated the Ohio College Guides program which places AmeriCorps volunteers in school-based, college access programs. Student-level records from the school district as well as the Ohio Department of Education and National Student Clearinghouse were used to evaluate the impact of the college guides program. 

The Blueprint Math Fellows program is a hybrid path tutoring program run by the nonprofit organization, Blueprint Schools Network. Blueprint’s Math Fellows program includes four key components: in-person and online live group tutoring, use of the web-based math learning platform ALEKS (Assessment and Learning in Knowledge Spaces), family engagement, and student incentives. The pilot project studied for this evaluation included tutoring and web-based math learning platforms provided to middle school students during their scheduled school day, five days a week in 45-minute sessions.

The True North AmeriCorps program (TNAC) is an affiliate of the Duluth Area Family YMCA. TNAC serves economically disadvantaged children in the city of Duluth, Minnesota and three surrounding rural counties. Students who participated received targeted sessions in which the TNAC member provides a variety of formal “check-in” supports characterized by goal-oriented problem-solving and social-emotional skill building as well as informal support in the form of after-school activity participation and homework help.