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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.

Posted inNews

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

Avatar photo by Liz Willen February 4, 2020April 8, 2021
Posted inNews

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

Avatar photo by Rann Miller January 9, 2020April 8, 2021
Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Posted inOpinion

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

by Amanda Kruger Hill December 16, 2019April 8, 2021
Student borrowers
Posted inNews

OPINION: Let’s make the FAFSA required for a high-school diploma, to increase college enrollment — and more counselors wouldn’t hurt either

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Bob Giannino and Yoon Choi November 5, 2019March 30, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School

OPINION: A boon for colleges and wealthy families, ‘early decision’ is unfair — and here to stay

Avatar photo by James Murphy October 7, 2019April 8, 2021
Posted inNews

College dreams often melt away in summer months. ‘Near-peer’ counseling is helping keep them alive.

Avatar photo by Sarah Gonser August 30, 2019April 8, 2021
Posted inNews

OPINION: School counselors must ‘move mountains’ to help undocumented students access U.S. higher education

Avatar photo by Kim Lopez August 1, 2019April 8, 2021
Posted inOpinion

Testing abuses, legacy preferences and bad parent behavior all influence who gets into college: What must change?

Avatar photo by Liz Willen June 20, 2019April 8, 2021
Posted inNews

OPINION: ‘The poor kids need what the rich kids have’

Avatar photo by Steve Bumbaugh June 20, 2019April 8, 2021
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Rural students often go unnoticed by colleges. Can virtual counseling put them on the map?

Avatar photo by Steve Friess June 11, 2019February 9, 2022

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