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March 20, 2012 | By | Cultural Bias, Malcolm's Blog

Speaking of Apps, I thought I’d toss out a few of my favorites in hopes that I might get a few good reccs back from some of you.  Setting aside the usual suspects – magazine subscriptions, apps that automatically come with the iPad, obvious ones like Facebook or YouTube – here are some of my favorites: - Find [...]

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    Art of Manliness

    March 16, 2012 | By | Cultural Bias, Malcolm's Blog

    I can’t recall how I stumbled across it, but I confess that I get a kick out of a web site called Art of Manliness.  (Check it out at www.artofmanliness.com.) Claiming its mission on the masthead – ”Reviving the Lost Art of Manliness” — it offers tips and suggestions on a wide variety of topics including money & [...]

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      Coach (Sweet Tommy) Bragg ’83

      March 09, 2012 | By | How Hyde Works, Malcolm's Blog

      I first met Tom Bragg in the summer of 1980.  He was a tall and gangly 15-year old from DC who had just enrolled in our Summer Challenge Program.  I was the basketball coach of the summer team we had entered in the old JC Best summer league - competitive hoops on hot, steamy asphalt under the lights in South [...]

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        Sweet!!!… New England Champs!

        March 08, 2012 | By | How Hyde Works, Malcolm's Blog

        The Hyde-Woodstock Wolfpack guys basketball team won the New England Prep School (NEPSAC) championship last weekend.  Talk about peaking at the right time! To get to the championship game on Sunday, they had to beat two teams that had beaten them in the regular season: Greens Farms (New Canaan, CT) and perennial power Hamden-Hall (Hamden, CT).  And they had to [...]

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          BK, Truth & Writing

          March 03, 2012 | By | Kirstie Truluck, Malcolm's Blog

            “I haven’t been honest with people,” said the senior who had been charged with a leadership position in the class.  But this was no ethical transgression or sneaky behavior. This young man was an excellent critical editor who had volunteered to edit the English class’ anthology.  He realized, as the revision project wound to [...]

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            Do The Right Thing

            February 27, 2012 | By | Current Events & Issues, Malcolm's Blog

            I recently exchanged emails with a friend about the merits of the growing number of character development programs out in the educational marketplace.  I noted that I am a great admirer of the work of Thomas Lickona who helped get the ball rolling twenty years ago with his great book Educating For Character and keeps it [...]

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              Tourney Time @ Augusta

              February 23, 2012 | By | How Hyde Works, Malcolm's Blog

              Say the word “Augusta” and all golfers’ eyes light up with enthusiasm.  The same thing happens at Hyde-Bath even though we don’t have even have a golf  team. What we do have is a boy’s basketball team that will be battling this weekend for the right to represent Western Maine in the state championship finals [...]

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                Helicopter Parents in… the Workplace!

                February 10, 2012 | By | Malcolm's Blog, Parenting

                And I thought Helicopter Parents were only a problem in schools!  Looks like they’re starting to invade the workplace. Check out this piece on the NPR web site: http://www.npr.org/2012/02/06/146464665/helicopter-parents-hover-in-the-workplace I mean, wouldn’t you celebrate the fact that they’re out of the house? Onward,  Malcolm Share this: Tweet

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                  What Teachers Really Want From Parents?

                  February 09, 2012 | By | Current Events & Issues, Malcolm's Blog

                  Hyde -Woodstock teacher Terry Walsh passed along a September CNN article (“What Teachers Really Want From Parents”) about US Teacher of the Year Ron Clark that features an interesting  opening: (CNN) – This summer, I met a principal who was recently named as the administrator of the year in her state. She was loved and adored [...]

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                    Bringing Up Bebe #3

                    February 08, 2012 | By | Malcolm's Blog, Parenting

                    Check out today’s (2/8/12) New York Times review of the book Bringing Up Bebe. Not exactly “thumbs up” but maybe it  will spark some controversy about the best way to raise children. Onward,  Malcolm Gauld Share this: Tweet

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                      Bringing Up Bebe #2

                      February 07, 2012 | By | Malcolm's Blog, Parenting

                      Over the weekend, there was an interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal on the Bringing Up Bebe book. It will be interesting to see if this generates as much discussion as last year’s “Tiger Mom.” Here’s the  link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204740904577196931457473816.html Onward,  Malcolm Gauld Share this: Tweet

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                        Gaming The College Rankings

                        February 01, 2012 | By | Current Events & Issues, Malcolm's Blog

                        “Gaming the College Rankings” is an interesting piece in today’s New York Times.  Writers Richard Perez-Pena and Daniel Slotnick begin by noting that Claremont-McKenna, ranked in the top-10 liberal arts colleges by U.S. News & World Report (the holy grail of rankings), has been caught fudging its numbers.  Apparently, this is newsworthy because, according to one source, [...]

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                          Bringing Up Bebe

                          January 27, 2012 | By | Malcolm's Blog, Parenting

                          In “Docteur Spock,” an interesting article in this week’s New York Magazine, Kera Bolonik previews a forthcoming book by Pamela Druckerman titled Bringing Up Bebe.  Calling the book “both the successor and antidote to Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom,” Druckerman appears to skewer the American helicopterish/snowplowish approach. In her article, Bolonik has Alexandra, a French mother, square off [...]

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                            Average is (Officially) Over

                            January 25, 2012 | By | Malcolm's Blog, Yup!

                            Having a daughter a few months away from college graduation, I am an up-close-and-personal witness to the anxieties currently felt by those approaching the job market for the first time.  It’s never been this tough in my lifetime. In recent meetings with Hyde seniors at Bath and Woodstock, I have tried to impart the message that good opportunities are [...]

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                              A 1st Year Teacher Shares

                              January 21, 2012 | By | How Hyde Works, Malcolm's Blog

                              Hyde-Woodstock teacher Robert Tunney, new to the profession, shares a story that is instructive to teachers of any experience. Beginning at Hyde: Learning from my students A few weeks ago I was on duty supervising dinner crew. I was sitting around the round table nearest the coffee bar with a group of students that I [...]

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