March 3, 2010
Graduates Fault Advice of Guidance Counselors (New York Times)
Most people who graduated from high school in the last dozen years believe that their guidance counselors provided little meaningful advice about college or careers, a new study has found. And many said the best advice on their futures came from teachers.
Most young adults who go on to college believe that the advice of their high school guidance counselors was inadequate and often impersonal and perfunctory, according to the study by Public Agenda, a nonprofit research organization.
Most troubling, and potentially significant for policy makers, the study added, is that young people who characterized their interactions with guidance counselors as anonymous and unhelpful were less likely to go directly from high school into a postsecondary program.
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