Counseling Program Reform |
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American School Counselor Association is the national organization that represents the profession of school counseling. ASCA focuses on providing professional development, enhancing school counseling programs, and researching effective school counseling practices. The National Standards for School Counseling Programs is summarized here. The links to Resources for School Counselors is extensive.
Education Trust was established by the American Association for Higher Education as a special project to encourage colleges and universities to support k-12 reform efforts. Education Trust is sponsoring the National Initiative for Transforming School Counseling. The project focuses on changing university school counselor preparation programs to prepare counselors to serve as student advocates and academic advisors.
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Guidance Curriculum
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The National Career Development Guidelines are useful in planning k-12 counseling and guidance curriculum.
Quest International provides curricula, training, and services designed to teach youth life skills, violence prevention, character education, and drug prevention.
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Parent Involvement/
Parent Education |
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America Goes Back to School is a nationwide initiative to encourage and support family and community involvement in improving children's learning.
Partnership for Family Involvement in Education seeks to increase opportunities for families to be mor6 involved in their children's learning at school and at home and to use family-school-community partnerships to strengthen schools and improve student achievement.
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Prevention |
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Advocates for Youth has information for GLBT youth and about HIV prevention, peer education, sexuality education and links to numerous youth programs worldwide.
Center for the Prevention of School Violence serves as a primary resource for dealing with the problem of school violence.
Drug Strategies is a non-profit research institute that promotes more effective approaches to the nation's drug problems.
Eating Disorders are dangerous conditions in which adolescents literally starve themselves to death.
Prevention On-Line is the site for the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information.
Safe and Drug-Free Schools is the Federal Government's primary vehicle for reducing, drug, alcohol and tobacco use, and violence, through education and prevention activities in our nation's schools.
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School Reform |
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National School Reform provides an annotated list of the sites with information about school reform and national school reform initiatives.
The New American High Schools Initiative is focused on high schools that are committed to ensuring that all students meet challenging academic standards and are prepared for college and careers.
Phi Delta Kappa provides research-based information on a host of educational topics including issues such as School Expulsions, Suspensions and Dropouts; and, New Directions in Drug Education. PDK also has an approach to school reform known as the National Center for Effective Schools.
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Testing |
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Fair Test - The National Center for Fair and Open Testing provides information on the abuses and misuses of standardized testing.
Rethinking Schools is an organization questioning the direction school reform is taking particularly with the focus on testing. |
