Graduates Find Fault with Guidance Counseling

The New York Times - March 2, 2010

A study by the non profit research organization Public Agenda has found that most high school graduates believe their guidance counselors provided little meaningful advice about college or careers.

The New York Times reports on the finding, saying that the study was sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as part of an effort to shed light on low completion rates at both the high school and college levels.

The study also notes that counselors' caseloads and responsibilities have grown in recent years with counselor to student ratios far beyond the optimal ratio of 100 student to one counselor. In California's public schools, for example, the ratio is reportedly close to 1,000 to 1.