by Katherine Stievater Did you know homeschooling in the U.S. has doubled in just a few years? The Department of Education and Census Bureau found that nearly 6% of K-12 students were […]
Here at Gap Year Solutions, we have long focused on helping teens build life skills, and be better prepared to walk on …
Counselors and parents were consistent in their top priorities. As a group, each had "Effective business/ professional communications and soft skills needed" in their top four.
By Katherine Stievater I love finding hidden little gems about Gap Years in the media. This short video from Channel 7 in …
By Katherine Stievater, Founder of Gap Year Solutions Parent attitudes towards Gap Years are changing. Parents I speak with used to be …
By Katherine Stievater I am delighted that the Independent Educational Consultants Association (IECA), of which I am a Professional member, published my …
Katherine visited several Gap Year programs in Europe last fall. We asked her to share some of her thoughts from these visits. …
Despite rising awareness of Gap Years and a COVID-induced surge in Gap Years, the number of high school students taking a Gap Year has returned to pre-pandemic levels. We know this from two different sources.
Regular readers of these pages know that we at Gap Year Solutions love data. Given that there is so little data to …
by Katherine Stievater We have a colleague in the Boston area who provides college counseling services to some of our students. In …