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Missouri Professional School Counselors: Ratios Matter, Especially in High-Poverty Schools
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Lapan, Richard T.; Gysbers, Norman C.; Stanley, Bragg; Pierce, Margaret E. – Professional School Counseling, 2012
Results link lower student-to-school-counselor ratios to better graduation rates and lower disciplinary incidents across Missouri high schools. An interaction favorable for promoting student success in school was found between increasing percentages of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch and smaller student-to-school-counselor ratios.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance Patterns, School Counselors, Poverty
Improving School Guidance and Counseling Practices through Effective and Sustained State Leadership: A Response to Miller
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Gysbers, Norman C. – Professional School Counseling, 2006
The article comments on the article "How Collaboration and Research Can Affect School Counseling Practices: The Minnesota Story," by Dean Miller. It describes the role of guidance supervisors in a sustained effort to improve school guidance and counseling practices. It also highlights the role that state supervisors of guidance and counseling can…
Descriptors: School Counselors, State Supervisors, School Guidance, Partnerships in Education
Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling Programs: The Evolution of Accountability
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Gysbers, Norman C. – Professional School Counseling, 2004
This article traces the evolution of accountability from the 1920s to 2003. Attention is given to expressions of concern about the need for accountability as well as recommendations for school counselors about how to be accountable. Then a sampling of empirical studies that provide evidence of the impact of guidance and counseling programs is…
Descriptors: Accountability, School Counselors, School Counseling, Comprehensive Guidance
Helping Seventh Graders Be Safe and Successful: A Statewide Study of the Impact of Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling Programs.
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Lapan, Richard T.; Gysbers, Norman C.; Petroski, Gregory F. – Professional School Counseling, 2003
Examines the relationship between statewide implementation of comprehensive guidance and counseling programs and indicators of success and safety for seventh graders (N=22,601). Students attending schools with more fully implemented comprehensive programs reported: feeling safer attending schools; having better relationships with their teachers;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comprehensive Programs, Counseling Effectiveness, Grade 7
Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling Programs: A Rich History and a Bright Future.
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Gysbers, Norman C.; Henderson, Patricia – Professional School Counseling, 2001
Describes the evolution of guidance and counseling in the schools from a position to a service to a comprehensive program and discusses the prevailing organizational structure, the comprehensive guidance and counseling program. Concludes by looking to the future and describing the authors' views on the future of comprehensive guidance and…
Descriptors: Comprehensive Guidance, Educational Practices, Educational Trends, School Counseling
School Guidance and Counseling in the 21st Century: Remember the Past into the Future.
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Gysbers, Norman C. – Professional School Counseling, 2001
Focuses on the evolution of guidance and counseling in the schools from the beginning of the 20th century. Analyzes this evolutionary process and highlights some insights from the past, giving specific emphasis to the implications these insights may have for the future work of school counseling. (Contains 45 references.) (GCP)
Descriptors: Counseling Theories, School Counseling, Theory Practice Relationship, Trend Analysis
School Board Policies for Guidance and Counseling: A Call to Action.
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Gysbers, Norman C.; Lapan, Richard T.; Jones, Bruce Anthony – Professional School Counseling, 2000
Explores current school board policies for guidance and counseling content and examines whether these policies reflect the shift from position to program. Argues that many current board of education policies in place today fragment and marginalize guidance and counseling in the schools because of their emphasis on a position rather than the…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Boards of Education, Counseling Effectiveness, Guidance Programs