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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.

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.”
Posted inColumnists

Two new documentaries showcase a long and winding road to college

Avatar photo by Liz Willen November 12, 2018April 8, 2021
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.
Posted inElementary to High School

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

Avatar photo by Tara García Mathewson August 30, 2018March 30, 2020
“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.
Posted inElementary to High School

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

Avatar photo by Sarah Gonser May 31, 2018March 30, 2020
Posted inFuture of Learning, Guidance Gap, Higher Education, News, Race and Equity, Solutions

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

Avatar photo by Liz Willen October 18, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inColumnists, Elementary to High School, Future of Learning, Guidance Gap, Higher Education

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

Chris Berdik by Chris Berdik August 17, 2016April 8, 2021
Posted inNews

How first-generation students are helping each other through college

Avatar photo by Lillian Mongeau May 18, 2016April 8, 2021
Maria Malik will be going to Princeton University in the fall on a full scholarship.
Posted inGuidance Gap, Higher Education, News

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

Avatar photo by Meredith Kolodner July 1, 2015April 8, 2021
College Advising Corps adviser Carmen Macias, right, explains yet another form to a Torres High School students in East Los Angeles.
Posted inCalifornia, Elementary to High School, Guidance Gap, Immigration, News, The West

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

Avatar photo by Lillian Mongeau June 11, 2015October 21, 2020
Posted inDivided We Learn, Elementary to High School, Guidance Gap, Higher Education, News

Rich school, poor school

by Erin Einhorn February 9, 2015April 8, 2021
Thea Tucker
Posted inElementary to High School, Guidance Gap, Higher Education, Opinion, Student Voices: New Orleans perspectives

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

by Thea Tucker May 13, 2014April 8, 2021

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