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This 5 page paper provides an overview of additional research for a paper on guidance counseling in New York City. This paper looks at some of the specific challenges in addressing the need for more guidance counselors. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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students original work based on the example paper that we created. Please be aware that will not provide additional work for the student if we suspect
that our original paper was plagiarized in any way. Budget Restrictions, Counselors and Change The challenges facing many school districts in urban settings are considerable and the pressure
to perform on standardized testing has influenced the role of guidance counselors. The high student to counselor ratio and the lack of adequate resources in New York City public
schools, for example, resulted in considerable conflict in 2002, when a large group of at-risk youths between the ages of 16-18 were "pushed out" of the day time educational programming
into adult education (Learner, 2002). Rather than investing some of the counseling and educational resources into maintaining an educational focus for these students, a number of low-performing 16 and
17 year old students were handed over to adult educators, without being provided any legal information about their right to stay in school (Learner, 2002). The effort was designed,
some argue, to improve NYC schools performance on accountability standards, which would inherently impact funding under the No Child Left behind Act (Learner, 2002). The biggest argument in
support of this kind of movement was based on the belief that academic resources, including counseling services, which would promote the maintaining of this population, were wasted on students who
experienced low test scores, poor performance and truancy (Learner, 2002). In general, they were perceived as a population of students who were not going to continue their education past
high school and were likely to take resources away from the schools because of their poor performance (Learner, 2002). Many guidance counselors supported the action, primarily
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