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.

On day three of the strike, members and supporters of United Teachers Los Angeles picket outside the Local District East office of the Los Angeles Unified School District.

LA’s school counselors strike back

The walkout succeeded in putting a spotlight on the dire shortage of counselors, who are key to helping students navigate school and plan for life after graduation

Guidance Gap

by E. Tammy Kim  – January 23, 2019

Clarissa Santana is a mother of three who is frustrated when she returns to college at the University of Akron and learns her credits from a for-profit school don’t transfer. She tells her story in the new documentary “Unlikely.”

COLUMN: Two new documentaries showcase a long and winding road to college

‘Personal Statement,’ and ‘Unlikely’ hit the film festival circuits with stories of real-life obstacles and struggles

Divided We Learn

by  Liz Willen  – November 12, 2018

Freshmen at St. Louis Park High School, just outside of Minneapolis, take time out of their social studies class for a team-building exercise that is part of the school’s Building Assets, Reducing Risks program.

A little-known program has lifted 9th grade performance in virtually every type of school

Using a holistic approach with students to “catch those coughs before they become pneumonia”

Future of Learning

by  Tara García Mathewson  – August 30, 2018

Future of Learning

The factory model of education is out. Now more schools are personalizing learning and trying to motivate students by empowering them in the classroom. Will this improve academic outcomes? Will it close achievement gaps? The Hechinger Report explores the innovations at the core of today's cutting-edge schools.

“Since my parents didn’t get much education, it’s hard to talk to them about my schoolwork and applying to college, or how to plan my time and get everything done,” says Mariano Almanza, 18, pictured speaking with his Coronado High School guidance counselor, Colleen McElvogue.

School counselors keep kids on track. Why are they first to be cut?

How Colorado is betting on counseling to vault low-income kids into good jobs and post-secondary education

Guidance Gap

by  Sarah Gonser  – May 31, 2018

Massachusetts charter pushes low-income students to college with coaching, nagging and “dream crushing”

“You can stay after school. You can always talk to your tutors or your teachers. And if one of us is slacking, we’ll all say, ‘Do you want to be a statistic? Your life isn’t a game. You don’t want to be stuck.’”

Future of Learning

by Liz Willen  – October 18, 2016

How first-generation students are helping each other through college

How a cadre of my former students from a Texas border town pulled each other through college at the University of Texas-Austin

Divided We Learn

by Lillian Mongeau  – May 18, 2016

Maria Malik will be going to Princeton University in the fall on a full scholarship.

How one observant Muslim girl persuaded her parents to let her go to Princeton

Maria Malik will be going to Princeton University in the fall on a full scholarship. Photo: Meredith Kolodner When Maria Malik found out she had been…

Guidance Gap

by  Meredith Kolodner  – July 1, 2015

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College Advising Corps adviser Carmen Macias, right, explains yet another form to a Torres High School students in East Los Angeles.

Whose job is it to “nag” first generation kids into applying for college?

Private advisers in public schools could help more students from low-income families apply to college

California

by  Lillian Mongeau  – June 11, 2015

Rich school, poor school

How the class divide is widened by gaps in counseling kids for college

Divided We Learn

by  Erin Einhorn  – February 9, 2015

Thea Tucker

Why I wish my guidance counselors would stop talking so much about college

In New Orleans schools there are a lot of teachers, principals and guidance counselors who encourage students to go to college so much and so vigorously that it seems as…

Guidance Gap

by  Thea Tucker  – May 13, 2014

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