Word: counselors
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...collar-and-below” zip code, I well know the problems that plague many less affluent schools, many of which focus on ensuring students pass standardized tests and graduate from high school, with little attention paid to where they go afterwards. At my high school, for example, a counselor estimated that only about 20 percent of seniors each year go on to a four-year college. This is not due to a lack of talented students—I believe it has more to do with a culture of low expectations, where few parents or teachers expect even...
...time there. The article is correct to point out that Harvard could take the national lead in working to increase access for lower-income students, as it has done for racial diversity. But while Harvard could do more, it is also up to parents at home and teachers and counselors at less affluent high schools—as well as school and government officials who should be pushing for increased funding for needed SAT prep and AP programs as well as counselor training—to make sure students know that the doors of higher education are open...
...dilation was extremely painful,’” Colleen, who had an abortion at 18, tells us. “A counselor held my hand and told me not to cry. The suction machine was very loud—a horrible noise. My abortion to me is like a bad, bad nightmare.” Meanwhile, Lisa says she’s angry. She wouldn’t have had an abortion had she “had an ultrasound, been counseled on the emotional, physical, mental consequences; if I had realized I could...
According to Bruce Breimer, college counselor at Collegiate School in New York, the decrease in Harvard applications is not so much a drop as a reordering. He said that last year’s spike in early applications was a fluke, coming as a result of a “nonsensical” policy...
...rest: a young Jennifer Aniston “Wait!” you object. “I’ve seen that movie ten times and Jennifer Aniston is not in it.” So sorry, my friend, but that’s her as camp counselor Eva Schector. It’s an easy mistake to make; after all, it’s apparent from the start that at that early point in Jen’s career, MIT engineers were not being commissioned to calculate the precise hair curvature that would optimize her perceived facial width...