About Diana Palka

Diana is a writer, runner, lover of words and life-long learner. She graduated with a Bachelor's degree in News-Editorial Journalism from Gardner-Webb University and since entering the proverbial "real world," has been challenged (slash forced) to learn what does and doesn't work when communicating honest messages. Currently, she works with a Benefit Consulting firm just outside New York City where she heads up the creation of employee communications and client deliverables for her team. Diana has a passion for a brave vulnerability that reveals the ugliest of impurities in the light of a perfecting grace.

The Thing About Higher Education is That it Ends (& Then What?)

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The economic landscape is tough for everyone – especially recent college graduates who constantly find themselves in the experience-required-experience-needed conundrum. Breaking Point Flix takes an honest (& kind of funny) look at the question, “Why should I hire you?”

New Guidelines Propose Change in Science Education

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Changes could be on the way for science classes across the nation with the release of the Next Generation Science Standards.

School Suspension, Race and the School-to-Prison Pipeline

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Are disciplinary actions always fair across different races? Are harsher punishments for minority students perpetuating a school-to-prison pipeline?

CNN’s Poor Choice of Thumbnail #thingsthatmakeyougohmm

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Is CNN’s thumbnail for a Steubenville-inspired Public Service Announcement sending the wrong message?

This is What It Looks Like When a City Fights for its Schools

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Philadelphia’s citizens, teachers and students are fighting to save their public school system. And they’re not backing down.

12 Year Old Boy Arrested for Fake School Shooting Call. Can You Suggest Ways To Stop This?

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Let’s work together on solutions. Leave suggestions in the comments.

The High-Achieving Low-Income Education Conundrum

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Exploring the cyclical relationships between socioeconomics and education.

Scratching the Surface

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Diana Palka, the Good Men Project’s new Associate Editor for Education, Humor & Gender, takes a stab at what it means to “join the conversation” regardless of your credentials.

Oh, and by the Weigh …

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What your weight-watching, water drinking, exercise obsession “diet phase” says to your insecure female significant other.