April 12, 2002

Professors Can Be Parents, Too

By MICHAEL BERUBE

In the third week of August, the fall semester started at Penn State. In September, just after Labor Day, the K-12 school year began in town. The deliberately uncoordinated schedules bespeak considerable cultural complexity, especially since Penn State is the largest employer in the area and the K-12 school district the second largest. You'd expect that they'd be on the same page when it comes to putting people in classrooms. But apparently a Grange Fair occupies a two-week period before

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