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Expanding Educational Opportunity for All Students

Sun, April 15, 8:15 to 10:15am, Crown Plaza Times Square, Floor: Fourth Floor, Times Square B Room

Session Type: Symposium

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Opportunity gaps continue to widen in terms of who attends college and persist through graduation, with Native American, Black, Latino/Hispanic, and low-income students remaining less likely to apply and attend college than their more advantaged peers. These disparities are especially pronounced when attendance and persistence data is reported by race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and gender. Initiatives such as the College Opportunity Agenda and the Reach Higher Campaign have drawn increased attention to inequitable student educational outcomes with recent White House Convenings focusing specifically on the lack of adequate school counseling and college advising resources available to many students and the call for renewed attention and evaluation of school counseling practices and interventions that strengthen postsecondary pathways for all students.

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