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Petra E. Woodard – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The need for schools to produce graduates ready to meet increasing workforce demands and postsecondary admission requirements has called for more individualized career and academic planning with high school students. School counselors have a unique yet complex role in providing college and career guidance, monitoring, and opportunities. This study…
Descriptors: School Counselors, Counselor Attitudes, Self Concept, Educational Practices
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Griffin, Dana; Williams, Joseph M.; Bryan, Julia – Professional School Counseling, 2021
Throughout the past decade, scholars have argued that the persistent achievement gap between Black male students and their White peers is a result of unequal and inadequate educational opportunities instead of inherent differences in their capability or character. School counselors can help support Black males by using equity-focused…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Family School Relationship, School Community Relationship, Academic Achievement
DuPaul, George J.; Power, Thomas J.; Evans, Steven W.; Mautone, Jennifer A.; Owens, Julie Sarno – Communique, 2016
In July 2016, the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued two documents to clarify and provide guidance on Federal obligations of school districts to students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) under Section 504. This action was in response to numerous complaints (approximately 2,000 over 5 years)…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Disabilities, Federal Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Fernandez, Ivelisse Torres – Communique, 2015
In the southwestern United States, there is a group of children who are referred to as "borderland children" who experience additional challenges that place them at higher risk of developing mental health and other related problems. For the purpose of this article, borderland children are defined as children who reside in towns and…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Mental Health, Health Services, Immigration
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Joseph, Alfred L., Jr.; Slovak, Karen; Broussard, C. Anne – School Social Work Journal, 2010
This article calls for school social workers to work in schools to reform school systems that have historically failed and are currently failing African American children. While the hope of education is to assist students to realize their potential, school systems across the nation are not reaching this goal. School social work has a duty, a…
Descriptors: African American Children, Student Placement, Ability Grouping, School Social Workers
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Bemak, Fred; Chung, Rita Chi-Ying – Professional School Counseling, 2005
The academic achievement gap of students of color and low-income students as compared to middle and upper socioeconomic students and White students has been clearly documented. Historically the long-standing role of the school counselor has contributed to the status quo of these inequities, inadvertently maintaining educational and social…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Justice, School Counselors, Counselor Role