Making the Transition: Interim Results of the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Evaluation

Interim results from a random assignment evaluation of the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program, an intensive, “quasi-military” residential program for high school dropouts, show that young people who had access to ChalleNGe were much more likely than those in the control group to have obtained a high school diploma or a General Educational Development certificate. They were also somewhat more likely to be working, in college, enlisted in the military, or engaged in other productive activities.