What Is the Gap-Year Advantage?

An Interview with Karl Haigler and Rae Nelson by Editor Sherry Schwarz When The Gap-Year Advantage authors Karl Haigler and Rae Nelson’s 18-year-old son, Adam, told them he was not ready to go to college, it threw them for a loop. With more than 40 years of combined experience in the fields of education policy and practice, they were accustomed to the traditional path of education—and their son already had been accepted by a number of selective colleges. But Adam had other ideas.

Inspired by a graduate of a school in his district who had taken time off before college to participate in a City Year community service project, Adam wondered what other options might be available to him if he deferred college for a year. As they write in their introduction, “Haigler recalled how, more than 20 years earlier, as a principal of Heathwood Hall in South Carolina, several of his students had questioned whether they were ready for college...yet. € At that time, Haigler met Cornelius “Neil” Bull, ... more.

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