CARA’s programs, research, and policy briefs are regularly featured in the media and highlighted by other educational organizations. Past coverage of CARA’s work includes:
2026
- Education Week: New York City Is Giving $1,000 to Kindergartners for College. Will It Work?, by Jennifer Vilcarino, features commentary from CARA co-executive director Janice Bloom.
- Money: ‘Manfluencers’ Insist That College Is a Scam. Here’s What They’re Not Telling You, by Pete Grieve, features CARA’s “Scrolling Towards the Future” report.
- The 74 Million: A New Digital Divide: College Search in the Age of Social Media, by Ashley Barry. This op-ed draws on CARA’s new report, “Scrolling Towards the Future,” and argues that educators need to lean into conversations with young people in order for social media to support, rather than misinform, their postsecondary search.
- National College Attainment Network (NCAN): New Report Examines How First-Gen Students Think About College Value, by Reid Higginson. This blog summarizes the main findings and implications from CARA’s recent report, “Is College Worth It – For Me?”
- Commission on Purposeful Pathways: The commission’s report, A Launchpad for Life: A Vision for Purposeful Pathways for All Students, organized by EducationFirst and the Gates Foundation, features CARA’s near-peer model and highlights CARA resources in its High Impact Practices Guide.
- Bellwether: The Systemic Impact series, by Alex Cortez, Christine Wade, and Kateland Beals, features CARA’s College Allies program in the “Introduction to Designing Effective Strategies” and “Designing and Executing Effective Campaigns” installments.
- AASA, The School Superintendents Association: Beyond College and Career-Ready Rhetoric: A Framework Superintendents Can Actually Use profiles the High Quality Advising Framework created by CARA & Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Mandy Savitz-Romer and describes how it can empower superintendents to improve postsecondary advising district wide.
2025
- Harvard Graduate School of Education News: What is high quality advising?, by Lory Hough, describes CARA & Professor Mandy Savitz-Romer’s collaborative work to create a national framework that school counselors can use when helping students figure out life after high school.
- The Pinkerton Papers: Reimagining the Summer after High School through Career-Connected Learning is a report published by the Pinkerton Foundation introduces the Summer College and Career Intensive (Summer CCI), an innovative program designed to leverage an often overlooked critical time in students’ development: the summer between high school and college.
- National College Attainment Network: Meeting the Moment – A Unified Framework for High Quality College and Career Advising is a blog written by CARA co-executive director Janice Bloom and Mandy Savitz-Romer, Nancy Pforzheimer Aronson Senior Lecturer in Human Development and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education introducing a new High Quality Advising Framework that educators and policymakers can use to guide their work.
2024
- District Administration: Here are 5 keys for student success beyond high school, by Kim Cook. This op-ed describes the District Framework for Enabling Postsecondary Success, a tool created by CARA and 15 other national college advising organizations to help school districts implement effective and equitable advising programs.
- Center for an Urban Future: Boosting Transfer Student Success at CUNY, by David Fischer. This report features CARA’s Co-Director, Lori Chajet, and Senior Director of College Allies & Persistence Partnerships, Shalema Henderson.
- Accelerate ED: Effective Strategies for Scaling Near-Peer Mentoring Programs, by Education Strategy Group. This brief highlights CARA’s peer-to-peer mentoring model as a proven approach for supporting first-generation college students through college access and persistence.
2023
- Chalkbeat: As NYC teens rethink college and career options, counselors are trying to adapt, by Michael Elsen-Rooney
- Ed Surge: Colleges Are Missing Out on Students Who Start — But Don’t Finish — Their Applications, by Emma Davis
- Gothamist: NYC’s college consultants play wait-and-see with affirmative action ruling, by Arun Venugopal
- SmartBrief: The far reach of near peers, by Julia Freeland Fisher
- College Bridge “Keeps it Relevant” on CUNY podcast with Ronnie Eldridge: Deneysis Labrada & Dorma Lozada: CARA College Bridge Program
2022
- Chalkbeat: How NYC programs fight ‘summer melt’ one student at a time
- The Bell’s ‘Miseducation’ Podcast: The College Advising Gap
- The 74 Million: In My NYC High School, Nearly All Our Seniors Complete the FAFSA & Get into High-Quality, 4-Year Colleges. Here’s How We Do It
- City Limits: Don’t just listen to students, employ them
2021
- Marketplace: Fewer students fill out FAFSA, enroll in college since pandemic began
- The Education Trust’s Higher Ed – Equity Lens blog: A New Near-Peer Coaching Program Strives to Keep Incoming Freshmen on Course
- NYU’s Metro Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools Perspectives blog: “I Felt Like I Never Fit in”: Increasing College Access and Persistence
- Kathleen Cushman’s new book, Fires in Our Lives: Advice for Teachers from Today’s High School Students features former CARA Youth Leader Angel Perez. Accompanying podcasts feature CARA co-director Lori Chajet.
2020
- New York Times magazine, Her School Offered a Path to the Middle Class: Will Covid-19 Block It?
- Marketplace, Many high school seniors in the “class of COVID” are rethinking their college plans
- The Hechinger Report, Getting College Guidance Numbers Right: What if Young People Were a Solution, Not Just a Problem?
2019
- CUNY TV, This edition: CARA-College Access: Research & Action
- Fox 5, Featured Story: Supporting every student
- NY1/Noticias, Guían a jóvenes en su proceso de ingreso universitario
- WPIX, College counseling program helps bridge the gap
- The Hechinger Report, College dreams often melt away in summer months. ‘Near-peer’ counseling is helping keep them alive.
- The Gothamist, ‘Summer Melt’ Is A College Admissions Killer. These Students Are Here To Help.
2018
- Center for an Urban Future, Degrees of Difficulty: Boosting College Success in NYC
2015
- NY Times – Schoolbook, These Students Have Been Accepted to College, But Will They Show Up This Fall?
2014
- City Limits, Getting Kids Ready for College, Beyond the Classroom
2013
- Center for New York City Affairs, Creating College Ready Communities: Preparing NYC’s Precarious New Generation of College Students
2012
- What Kids Can Do, Across Summer’s Shaky Bridge to College, Help from Other Students
2011
- Annenberg Institute for School Reform, VUE, “We’re All in it Together”: the Role of Youth Leadership in College Access”
- What Kids Can Do, “Submit Application!” Youth Coach Their Peers Past the College-Access Potholes