Parents in Highschooland: Helping students succeed in the critical years

Thanks to her 33 years of dedicated work as a high school guidance counselor, few education professionals are better qualified than author Karyn Rashoff to identify, analyze, and resolve the complex interactions among students, their teachers, and their parents. Her nearly 20,000 counseling interactions have pointed to specific behaviors that promote school success.

The school counselor's job is to reconcile the sometimes disparate desires of students, teachers, coaches, administrators, and ...