Guidance Gap
Counselors are key to helping students navigate school, apply to college and map out careers, but there’s a critical shortage of them in our nation’s schools. We look at how the school counseling crisis is affecting kids.
OPINION: The need for more black school counselors, and four ways to get better information about HBCUs
If educators care about student success, they need to ensure students know that historically black colleges and universities are an option
OPINION: Six lessons from Louisiana about helping students obtain federal aid for college
Why families benefit from mandatory FAFSA completion and support with forms
OPINION: Let’s make the FAFSA required for a high-school diploma, to increase college enrollment — and more counselors wouldn’t hurt either
Easier forms, with more help in completing them, would reduce obstacles in federal student aid applications
OPINION: A boon for colleges and wealthy families, ‘early decision’ is unfair — and here to stay
Move by the National Association for College Admission Counseling makes elimination of binding agreements unlikely
College dreams often melt away in summer months. ‘Near-peer’ counseling is helping keep them alive.
Eight years in, a program that helps low-income students stay on track to college is spreading — and showing results
OPINION: School counselors must ‘move mountains’ to help undocumented students access U.S. higher education
A call for comprehensive immigration reform that would benefit students
COLUMN: Testing abuses, legacy preferences and bad parent behavior all influence who gets into college: What must change?
Seeking a road ahead for equality in higher education
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OPINION: ‘The poor kids need what the rich kids have’
A College Board official discusses inequities and how to address them
Rural students often go unnoticed by colleges. Can virtual counseling put them on the map?
In rural high schools, college guidance is often inadequate or non-existent. But new programs are popping up to help
OPINION: The dangerous message in telling low-income students to skip college
Statistics fail to present the full picture