Study of Jobs Program Finds 'Disappointing' Impact

A public-private summer employment and remediation program for at-risk teenagers that had shown promising short-term results and has been replicated at 100 sites in 15 states has had a "disappointing'' long-term impact, according to a new study of some of its earliest participants.

The Summer Training and Education Program, which provides summer job training and employment, remediation, and life skills for disadvantaged youths, has been found to boost short-term academic success, but it has failed to reduce the dropout and teen-pregnancy rates for participants four and five years after the...