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: We must close college counseling’s equity gap
Four topics of concern about advising and inequity in the wake of 'Operation Varsity Blues'
After all the fuss about getting in, how do poor students survive on elite campuses?
A new book details obstacles, from encountering closed cafeterias to cleaning clogged toilets
OPINION: Shocked by the college admissions scandal? School counselors aren’t
'The students who need the most support receive the least'
OPINION: How colleges can cash in on the latest admissions scandal — without breaking the law
A completely legal plan to separate the richest parents from their money, and to help poor and middle-class students, too
OPINION: 1.7 million students attend schools with police but no counselor — ACLU report
Over-policed schools increase a student’s likelihood of entering the criminal justice system
STUDENT VOICE: ‘College was just another foreign word. Then it became a dream for every student in my school’
When her high school lacked counselors to help with college admissions, this student helped her peers and herself
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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
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”
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