Get Another Life
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The academic life, at least according to popular culture, is one of leisure and banter interspersed with a few hours of off-the-cuff teaching. Remember the character named Gary on the late-1980’s television show thirtysomething? He was an assistant professor of English literature with a large, beautiful office. Research, teaching, and service were invisible components of [...]
We Don’t Live by Spreadsheets
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Fund raisers love data. We’re awash in it. Give us reams of names, numbers, lists, transactions, benchmarks, charts, and graphs. We use Access to excess and excel at Excel. And we kill more trees than annosus root rot.
Not surprisingly, the higher-education market is clogged with companies willing and eager to satisfy our data fix. Their [...]
An Enlightening Trip to the Countryside
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I have an advantage working as the vice president for government relations at a large state university. Actually, four advantages. I have an ego-enhancing high profile in my local community and among a certain group of people at the state level. I have access to a number of pots of money that can be used [...]
School districts have harder time filling math, science positions
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March is the beginning of a lot of things. Spring, baseball and March Madness. It’s also the time when schools start recruiting and hiring teachers.
Like most school districts, Greeley-Evans School District 6 is gearing up for teacher recruitment season. This year, the district plans to hire more than 120 teachers. And if that wasn’t a [...]
Rwanda: Internal Affairs - Solving a Huge Education Problem
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We have a huge education problem: students are not getting an education because teachers are not getting enough money to stoke their passion for education!
Education in primary and secondary schools is getting a failing grade both on the wanted content, education and on the unwanted content, eradication of genocide ideology.
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Church strives for better lives
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LAUNCHING HOPE: New Hope Church in Lower Paxton Twp. has
launched Partnership for Hope, a community outreach
involving health, fitness, elder care, financial education,
recovery from addiction and a series of professional and
relationship development classes. Some programs are free.
The church is partnering with schools, agencies helping
alcoholics or the elderly, nonprofit groups and others. It
wrestled with how to help [...]
NEWS IN BRIEF
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DERRY TWP. Plans unveiled to align roads About two dozen
residents attended an open house Thursday night to learn
about a relocation of Hershey’s most famous
intersection. Cocoa and Park avenues will be aligned at
Chocolate Avenue to eliminate a turn for north-south Route
743 traffic. A building occupied by several business,
including Mr. Sorrento’s Pizza, will be razed. The
pizza shop [...]
Time to bow out of liquor business
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WOnderling has a way
For people who think Pennsylvania’s 1930s-era
liquor-control system is archaic, inconvenient and
consumer-averse, there are two reasonable, sober courses of
action. One is to try to change the system.
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An education in terror is no small matter
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It’s easy to pick on school administrators.
In 25 years, I’ve probably contributed 100 columns to
the effort. And none was without merit.
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Close income gap ourselves
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hopefuls is that of “closing the gap” of income
differential. While waiting for the obese, self-perpetuating
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Focus on creating or connecting with available
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