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Written by Elizabeth Shimer Bowers | Illustrated by Edel Rodriguez
At the request of Theory to Practice, alumnus Peter Langman—a sought-after expert on the psychology of young people who commit rampage school shootings—recently sat... Read more »
Written By Eric Metcalf | Illustrations By Henrik Drescher
The educators lean forward in their chairs and tilt their heads to ponder the situation from a new perspective. They furrow their brows, contemplating how they will answer the question hanging over the room.
The question that the... Read more »
Written by Lini S. Kadaba | Illustrations by Laurindo Feliciano
The data is indisputable: Boys now lag behind girls in several significant areas of education. But the roots of the new gender gap are more complex and nuanced than has been reported. And so are the solutions.
For years, women... Read more »
Just off a busy four-lane strip mall-lined road, within a quiet neighborhood in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, rests Jeffersontown High School. When arriving at the school, visitors will notice nothing remarkable about the setting or the building. Similar to the view from the parking lot, a review of the school’s published accountability statistics... Read more »
Many people hear the term “sex trafficking” and think of Third World countries. But youth all over the United States—including the Lehigh Valley—become victims of sexual slavery every day.
“Our research in a local county prison revealed that 50 percent of the women inmates had a history of sex trafficking, and one-third of these... Read more »