End Game – A Different Path to Workforce Development

April draws its name from the Latin word aperio, “to open” (Olde Farmer’s Almanac, 2015). For college students on the brink of summer break, April very well may represent an opening to explore new horizons—at home, abroad, in work, and at play. Surprisingly, it may be that last opportunity that holds the most cachet for…

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Character Education — What We Can Learn from the Atlanta Public Schools

The April 1 guilty verdicts for 11 former teachers and administrators in the Atlanta Public Schools were hardly a fool’s joke. In what The Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJC) called “one of the most notorious” scandals to ever befall a public school system, the educators conspired to correct student answers on the mandatory Criterion-Referenced Competency Test…

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Girlhood — Girls, Puberty and “Self”

The Oscar-nominated film “Boyhood” offers a rambunctious tour inside the life and times of Mason Evans, Jr., actually tracking the real-time coming of age of actor Ellar Coltrane (IMBD, 2014). While rife with the familiar conflicts and conquests of growing up as a boy, the film also tracks the identity search of Mason’s sister, Samantha…

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They Will Follow — Positive Peer Pressure or Influence

Research from SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions) revealed that parents are the number one reason why young people make good choices. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the same research pegs peers as the number one reason why they make bad choices. Perhaps the best news of all is that peers are…

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Running On — Physical, Emotional and Social Lives

Girls are on the run. But what are they running from? Or to? That’s what I wanted to know, so I asked Cheryl Stumpf, executive director of the Greater Susquehanna Valley Council (PA) of the national Girls on the Run organization and a counselor and outreach coordinator at the Susquehanna University Counseling Center. Here’s what…

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