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...veteran English teacher, I need to speak some ugly truths you will never hear from politicians or school officials: this country is full of clueless, disengaged parents who can't or won't control their kids. Many of my students shamelessly admit they never study, do homework or read books for fun. Meanwhile, I spend a lot of instructional time shutting them up, waking them up and telling them to put away their cell phones. I love my job and my students, but I'm tired of taking all the blame for education's problems. Everyone needs to be held...
...While previous violent incidents at Harvard have also spurred administrators to amend specific deficiencies in the University’s broad crises management plans and tactics, University officials admit that it is difficult to identify truly troubled students due to privacy considerations...
...would be very reluctant to admit a student whom we considered dangerous. We would not admit a student who we knew was dangerous,” McGrath Lewis says...
...There are many appealing students who have no criminal records who we don’t have room to admit,” she says...
...Morgan, who one day in lecture randomly decried how busy everyone at Harvard “had” to be. He recounted a story of how impossible it was to arrange to have coffee with another professor, noting that it was “unfashionable” to admit to being free tomorrow afternoon. Instead, the other professor was apt to pull out the BlackBerry and suggest a date several months into the future, projecting a busy façade regardless of his or her actual schedule. This anecdote has proven strikingly apropos in more situations than I would...