School Counseling to Close the Achievement Gap

School Counseling to Close the Achievement Gap
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Publisher : Corwin Press
Total Pages : 353
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ISBN-10 : 9781412941839
ISBN-13 : 1412941830
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Book Synopsis School Counseling to Close the Achievement Gap by : Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy

Download or read book School Counseling to Close the Achievement Gap written by Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2007-06-27 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School counsellors can play a powerful role in closing the achievement gap by incorporating principles of social justice - that is, equity and advocacy for all students - into their practice. This new resource for pre-service and in-service counsellors addresses the reasons why some students are more likely to encounter academic failure (racism, sexism, heterosexism, classism), and challenges readers to play an active role in bringing about the conditions for student success. Offering a variety of vignettes, strategies, activities, and reflective individual and group study questions, the book provides the framework for how school counsellors can mitigate the impact of negative factors hampering academic performance and healthy development. The book details six functions of a school counsellors that move schools toward more just practices and, ultimately, to higher test scores and increased student achievement.


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