Recently a personal finance teacher in Tennessee shared the CollegeBoard’s video “You Can Go” (http://youcango.collegeboard.org/) and over and over the students being interviewed repeated that phrase, “You can go” “You can go” “You can go.” It has been stuck in my mind ever since that time. What I keep mulling over is the question – “but do students really believe this?”
They SHOULD believe it! We were tasked with the challenge of creating a website, curriculum, and professional development program to help teachers, parents, and students truly internalize the fact that higher education is accessible to everyone regardless of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and even poor grades (assuming you are willing to do the work to turn that trend around). To that end, the College GP$ program was born.
Over time, our website will grow with curriculum, resources, this blog which we hope will provide helpful hints to:
- point students towards careers that meet their interest and their money goals
- find ways to achieve the necessary education for those careers
- find ways to fund higher education, whether that be a technical school (now known as colleges of applied technology), a two year community college, or a four-year college/university, and
- find ways to avoid some of the financial pitfalls that many of us fell into while working toward that next level of education