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America's School Counselor Crisis

In addition to addressing the varied needs of students, school counselors bridge gaps by working not just with students but also with “administrators, teachers, school support staff, parents and outside community members to design, implement and evaluate comprehensive wellness programs within schools,” finds aĚýstudy from the Carsey School of Public PolicyĚýat the Âé¶ąapp.

New Kids on the Block

LAST OCTOBER HURRICANE WILMA was bearing down on the Northeast, with three storms slamming into New England simultaneously. As I drove toward Durham to meet freshmen for this story, 50-mile-an-hour gusts jerked the family minivan across traffic lanes and I mused about wild catastrophic forces either unseen or unheeded, the desire to drive straight, and the nagging sense of feeling Lilliputian-sized in a Gulliver-sized world.