As an example of the way schools could take on greater responsibilities, Wodarski suggests that they could stay open between four and nine p.m., hours when parents may not yet be home. During those hours, a variety of professional people could come in to the schools to talk to children. But we will need massive social change to help the other two-thirds. Universities have long done research for the sake of research, but now we need to do more applied research. And we need to work more with politicians, who structure society but may not understand the complexity of its problems.
Social problems have to be attacked in a multi-level, interventive, comprehensive way.