School counseling to close the achievement gap : a social justice framework for success / Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holcomb-McCoy, Cheryl.

Contributor:

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational counseling--United States.

Educational counseling.

Student counselors--In-service training.

United States.

Student counselors--In-service training--United States.

Student counselors.

Academic achievement--United States.

Academic achievement.

Physical Description:

xii, 159 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, CA : Corwin Press, [2007]

Summary:

School counselors 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 preservice and inservice counselors 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 & group study questions, the book provides the framework for how school counselors can mitigate the impact of negative factors hampering academic performance and healthy development. The book details six functions of a school counselors that move schools toward more just practices and, ultimately, to higher test scores and increased student achievement.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-149) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781412941839

1412941830

9781412941846

1412941849

OCLC:

77522709