Novice school counselors’ role in closing the achievement gap with low-income adolescents
- Erin M. Westb(Author),
- Randall M. Moateb(Author),
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- bUniversity of Texas at Tyler
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Abstract
We explored 10 novice school counselors’ experiences working to close the achievement gap with low-income adolescents through interpretative phenomenological analysis. Results suggest that school counselors experienced their role in closing the achievement gap with low-income adolescents as one of (a) systemic discouragement, (b) interactions with students’ home environment, and (c) parallel process advocacy. Implications for school counselors, counselor educators, and future research are included.