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	<title>Abeng News Magazine &#187; Ed McCoy</title>
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		<title>Pat Robertson &#8211; Dunce or Deceiver?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed McCoy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working with the U.S. Peace Corps in Jamaica almost forty years ago, I learned that, for perhaps what are now far more obvious reasons, there were few leaders either from the U.S. or Jamaica for that matter who seemed truly interested in teaching us Volunteers that most uneducated or even poorly-educated people, regardless of where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outlandish Predictions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed McCoy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new year (in this case, 2010) never is exactly like the year before it and only occasionally is it all that similar, but around this time of so many recent years, owing primarily to the calendar I suppose, many of us like to make reflections upon the previous one or predictions of what will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Real McC(K)oy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed McCoy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered which or who, in fact, is &#8220;the real McCoy&#8221; or is it &#8220;McKoy?&#8221; And what is the origin of this most common expression? Well, I should know, shouldn&#8217;t I? Though the newspaper&#8217;s proofreader misspells it occasionally, my name is actually &#8220;McCoy&#8221; with a &#8220;C,&#8221; not a &#8220;K.&#8221; And no, I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regarding Obama: Be Cautious in Optimism</title>
		<link>http://www.abengnews.com/2008/11/18/regarding-obama-be-cautious-in-optimism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed McCoy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the run up to the recent U.S. election, several groups peripheral to the McCain campaign, particularly in the days just before the vote, were sponsoring seriously-negative advertisements on both radio and television that were no doubt unfounded, completely ridiculous criticisms of Barack Obama. They were obviously designed to sway a small percentage, hopefully one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Peace Corps Volunteer&#8217;s Tale, Part IV</title>
		<link>http://www.abengnews.com/2008/05/17/a-peace-corps-volunteers-tale-part-iv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 19:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed McCoy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Falmouth&#8230; waiting for soemthing to happen&#8230; The next week, back in Kingston, I went to the Ministry office, met with the program supervisor and had myself reassigned to Trelawny. There were no Guidance volunteers there, though there apparently had been in recent years. What harm could it do to try a different parish, one at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Peace Corps Volunteer&#8217;s Tale Part III</title>
		<link>http://www.abengnews.com/2008/05/11/a-peace-corps-volunteers-tale-part-iii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 05:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed McCoy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Writing letters of complaint only works when you&#8217;re somebody important, when your problem is universal, or when it has the potential, I suppose, of generating a large, class-action suit. Somehow I knew that my letter to the Director of the Peace Corps had zero chance of doing anything, and why not? Unless you&#8217;re Jimmy Carter&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Peace Corps Volunteer&#8217;s Tale: Part II</title>
		<link>http://www.abengnews.com/2008/05/04/a-peace-corps-volunteers-tale-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 19:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed McCoy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it seems hard now to look back and try to understand it all, but then that day on the north coast when I wandered into the middle of that drug deal gone bad wasn&#8217;t the only time I nearly died a Peace Corps Volunteer in Jamaica. There were several others and the reasons weren&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Peace Corps Volunteer&#8217;s Story</title>
		<link>http://www.abengnews.com/2008/04/27/a-peace-corps-volunteers-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed McCoy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many years ago I received word from a Congressman that he had carried my complaint against the U.S. Peace Corps to the head of the agency in Washington D.C. It had taken months and a little Congressional help but I eventually received a personal reply from the top man and the jest of it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retaking the School with Classroom Discipline</title>
		<link>http://www.abengnews.com/2008/03/23/retaking-the-school-with-classroom-discipline/</link>
		<comments>http://www.abengnews.com/2008/03/23/retaking-the-school-with-classroom-discipline/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed McCoy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Good classroom discipline may well mean different things to different people in different schools, but overall, it is the individual student&#8217;s ability to discipline him/herself that is the measure of real success in any educational environment.   Generally speaking, the smaller the class size the more control a teacher may have over individual behaviours, yet control [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Performance-Based Pay Systems in Education</title>
		<link>http://www.abengnews.com/2008/01/22/performance-based-pay-systems-in-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed McCoy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Much emphasis has been placed and research done on what are commonly called &#8216;performance based&#8217; pay systems within industry. Around for decades, it is hardly a new idea or practice. The most common example found in many businesses today is the &#8216;pay by piece&#8217; manufacturing operation in which workers are paid by the quantity of [...]]]></description>
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