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ERIC Number: EJ1167398
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Jan
Pages: 23
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ISSN: EISSN-2333-715X
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Increasing College Opportunity: School Counselors and FAFSA Completion
Owen, Laura; Westlund, Erik
Journal of College Access, v2 n1 Article 3 p6-26 Jan 2016
Closing postsecondary opportunity gaps has become a national, state and local educational priority. To help eliminate these gaps, the U.S. Department of Education initiated a project that provided real-time, student-level Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) completion status to large, urban school districts. Leveraging this information, school counselors identified and supported students and families as they navigated the financial aid process. In this article, we discuss this initiative and document statistically significant increases in FAFSA completion and college attendance in one participating school.
Journal of College Access. 1903 W. Michigan Avenue, Kalamazoo, MI 49008. Web site: http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/jca/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: New Mexico
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