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The Hechinger Report

Covering Innovation & Inequality in Education

Category: 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.

Lowest student-to-school-counselor ratio since 1986

by Jill Barshay April 27, 2020April 27, 2020

My Hechinger Report colleagues have written many stories about how low-income students don’t get nearly as much help as wealthy students do when it comes time to apply to college. The gap in college counseling is yet another example of how students who need more tend to get less in the United States. So it […]

When elite college prep lowers your grade

by Jill Barshay April 13, 2020April 14, 2020

How the coronavirus has upended college admissions

by Charlotte West March 24, 2020November 23, 2020

In dark days of coronavirus, a little kindness can restore students’ faith

by Liz Willen March 23, 2020November 23, 2020

Why aren’t more school counselors trained in helping students apply to college?

by Charlotte West February 21, 2020March 30, 2020

Michael Bloomberg unveils ‘progressive’ higher education plan

by Liz Willen February 18, 2020September 24, 2020

OPINION: At-risk youth aren’t the problem — but they can be part of the counseling solution

by Janice Bloom and Lori Chajet February 11, 2020March 30, 2020

After ‘Varsity Blues’ scandal, lots of talk about overhauling college admissions. Will there be action?

by Liz Willen February 4, 2020September 24, 2020

OPINION: The need for more black school counselors, and four ways to get better information about HBCUs

by Rann Miller January 9, 2020March 30, 2020

OPINION: Six lessons from Louisiana about helping students obtain federal aid for college

by Amanda Kruger Hill December 16, 2019March 30, 2020

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