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School Counseling to Close the Achievement Gap
A Social Justice Framework for Success
Edited by:
- Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy - American University, Washington DC, USA, John Hopkins University, USA, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
May 2015 | 176 pages | Corwin
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.
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
1. The Achievement Gap: Our Ultimate Challenge
2. School Counseling Within the Context of Social Justice
3. Counseling and Intervention Planning
4. Consultation
5. Connecting Schools, Families, and Communities
6. Collecting and Using Data
7. Challenging Bias
8. Coordinating Student Services and Support
9. Doing the Right Thing: Developing a Social Justice–Focused School Counseling Program
Resources
Suggested Readings by Topic
References
Index
This textbook was recommended for both introduction to school counseling and internship in school counseling courses as a supplemental text for the course.
College of Continuing and Professional Studies, Mercer University Graduate Professional Center
October 14, 2009