counseling

Colorado should help districts create a culture in the schools in which all students believe they can succeed by increasing the number of counselors, ensuring the student-to-counselor ratios are lowest in the schools that serve the most low-income kids, and encouraging greater use of and coordination with pre-collegiate programs throughout the state.

A Boulder Daily Camera commentary lamenting the poor state of high school counseling in Colorado, where the student-to-counselor ratio is high and some minority and low-income students are discouraged from going to college by their counselors.