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: 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

Guidance Gap

by  Peg Tyre  – March 14, 2019

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

Guidance Gap

by  Amir Whitaker  – March 4, 2019

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

Guidance Gap

by  Karoline Jimenez  – February 25, 2019

High School Reform

Experts often urge educators to catch struggling students "before it's too late," but high schools are charged with educating all students, regardless of their past. The Hechinger Report is spending two years exploring high schools successful with diverse groups or trying innovative approaches.
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

“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

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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

COLUMN: E-Counseling 2.0: Can a new wave of virtual guidance help?

The latest virtual guidance counseling services may help more low-income kids get to college

Future of Learning

by  Chris Berdik  – August 17, 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

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