Students in nearly every U.S. state and in 50 countries are making better college and career decisions thanks to Family Connection, part of WorkspaceK12 from Naviance. In a recent article in The Seattle Times, a current senior highlights her picks for the best available tools and Family Connection wins kudos as a "great tool for personalized college and scholarship research, planning and application tracking." She writes: "If we had Naviance at our school, a lot of people wouldn't turn to other services." Read "Rating the Online College-Search Tools" at nwsource.com.

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Counselor's Office from Naviance is the industry-standard platform for planning and advising in middle and high schools. And, when it comes time for counselors to help students apply to college, Counselor's Office leads the way with on-line submission of all application credentials to more colleges than any other system. With nearly half a million active students from this year's senior class alone, Naviance is transforming the way high schools help students transition to college. Our unique relationship with the Common Application gives Naviance Network members the ability to send electronic transcripts, Secondary School Reports, Mid-Year Reports, recommendation letters, and profiles to 315 leading U.S. colleges and universities. Says one happy counselor, "the amount of time, postage and paper we have saved is enormous!" Electronic forms are just one more way Naviance is making lives better for counselors, students, and parents in more than 50 countries around the world.

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Counselors at Mount Anthony Union High School and Brattleboro Union High School are helping to spread the word about Naviance to their colleagues in Vermont. The Bennington Banner reports that MAU and Brattleboro leading the way with WorkspaceK12. MAUHS counselor Eric Caron states that his students have found Family Connection, part of WorkspaceK12, "incredibly helpful" as they build their post-secondary plans. He particularly likes that Family Connection can help students overcome the financial hurdles of attending college by providing detailed information about local scholarships -- information that often isn't available anywhere else. Read "Web site helps MAU kids plan for college" at benningtonbanner.com.

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Public school districts across the U.S. are adapting high schools to ensure all students are college- and workplace-ready. In Southeastern Virginia, Norfolk Public Schools set out on "a journey to be a 'world-class' school district" and adopted WorkspaceK12 to help bring this vision to reality. As Joyce Beamon, Senior Coordinator for NPS writes, "counseling tools and methods of the past are not adequate for student needs of the future," but with WorkspaceK12, "Norfolk Public Schools' counselors will be an integral part" of the district's college- and workplace-readiness efforts.

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