Our work documents challenges and best practices for scaling peer-to-peer advising, and examines how policies and practices can better support students as they define and pursue their college and career goals. Through this research, we advocate for more effective models, grounded in both youth leadership and institutional capacity-building that help students get to and through college.
Below, you’ll find CARA publications that aim to inform practice, policy, and systems change.
This report – and accompanying blog series – is the result of three years of research at 7 NYC public high schools working to improve their postsecondary planning infrastructure. It explores the challenges schools face and surfaces successful practices for curriculum implementation, professional development, and college counseling support.
Young people encounter inequities accessing postsecondary advising and career development. In this report, we demonstrate how best practice peer-to-peer postsecondary advising programs are a cost-effective solution that simultaneously expands advising capacity, creates internships, and generates a diverse talent pipeline for the counseling and advising fields.
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This research study documents the skills & experiences near-peers use when advising students through postsecondary decisions.
Written by CARA co-executive director Janice Bloom and Mandy Savitz-Romer, Nancy Pforzheimer Aronson Senior Lecturer in Human Development and Education…
This report introduces Summer CCI, an innovative program designed to leverage an often overlooked critical time in students’ development: the…
The report outlines five key practices for colleges looking to launch or grow their own peer-to-peer programs.
This blog post summarizes different leaks in the transfer pipeline and CARA’s work to address them with several CUNY campuses,…
This blog series, published by (NCAN), summarizes the findings from our Organizing for Access report and describes how educators can…
Drawing on conversations with educators at nine partner high schools, this report describes the promise of a set of programs…
Having a committed leader is essential for the success of a high school’s postsecondary access program. The question is: what…
This report describes four key obstacles and opportunities for better supporting adolescent immigrant students’ postsecondary paths.