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The Real World: Archive
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April, 2010
Massachusetts is in the national news again, this time not because of our new U.S. Senator but rather because of the more sobering topic of bullying. This is due, in large part, to the tragic recent deaths of 15-year old Phoebe Prince and 11-year old Carl Walker-Hoover, two kids who were apparently on the receiving end of bullying from other kids at school and ended up taking their own lives as...
January, 2010
As noted in a recent column in TIME magazine, a new year means a chance to put to rest some of the tired words and phrases that became popularized during the previous year. In its annual rendition of the List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-use, Over-use, and General Uselessness (CLICK HERE),...
January, 2010
The Tiger Woods saga appears, finally, to have moved off the front pages. Because Tiger, like most professional athletes, is in the entertainment business, I guess a lot of folks found his marital indiscretions to be as compelling as his golf game. Of course, the most tragic aspect of the situation -- the part typically given short shrift in situations like this (think John and Kate) -- is the...
November, 2009
In findings recently reported by Public Agenda (www.publicagenda.org), 40 percent of K-12 classroom teachers in the U.S. were characterized as “disheartened.” These teachers voiced high levels of frustration about disorder in the classroom (nearly 75 percent cited discipline and behavior problems as major issues), felt there was an undue focus on...
October, 2009
My original plan for this first The Real World installment was to complain. I know our new President here in the U.S. hasn’t been in office for very long, and I also understand that he’s operating under very difficult circumstances and has some very big fish to fry: the economy, health care reform, finance reform, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan...the list is long, and I don’t envy the man, though...
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