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School Reform: College Counseling is “Elementary”
Summary: College counseling for low income students plays to a largely absent audience if interventions have not been going on since elementary school. I looked across the room of fifty or sixty seniors with a pride that had little to … Continue reading
Posted in At Risk Students, School Reform, Schools and Culture
Tagged at risk students, College Board, College Bound Scholars, college counseling, dropouts, KIPP charter schools, low-income students, relationships in schools, school reform, student motivation, teaching self control, Walter Mischel
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At Risk Kids and the College Game
Summary: Low income kids often are first in their family to contemplate college, and so lack the fund of family college information taken for granted by middle and upper class students. Their back up option, the guidance of their high … Continue reading
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