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The Long Road to College From California's Small Towns [edsource.org]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) · 12/21/1911:41 PM

By Carolyn Jones, EdSource, December 20, 2019 The exchange went awry quickly. Jill McWilliams, a high school guidance counselor was trying to persuade a student and her mother that the bright, motivated senior should apply to college. “The mom said to her daughter, ‘What, you think you’re better than us?’ The girl started crying and said, ‘No, I don’t. I’m sorry,” recounted McWilliams at Anderson New Technology High School in rural Shasta County. “This story isn’t unique. That’s all too...

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