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5/2008 - n my sixteenth year of headship and in my eighth
at Oakwood, I have been granted a new and different view
of our school and our students.
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5/2008 - Getting ready for school in the 1960s was a grind. There was the makeup,
the hose and garter belt, a white blouse that had been sprinkled
down and ironed, and, then, the hair.
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4/2008 - It’s time for new priorities: attitude over aptitude, effort over ability,
and character over talent. Sometimes the deepest wisdom is expressed in old adages.
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4/2008 - We often hear about how things “used to be,” how children “used to act.”
Grandmothers talk about a lack of manners; college professors lament poor skills ...
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1/2007 -
It was the summer after my ninth grade year, and mom, dad, my brother, and I loaded up the turquoise Plymouth for our vacation ...
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10/2006 - The approach of the college acceptance season can be a discouraging time for a head of school. It is a time when students and parents focus ...
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11/2005 - The seminal thinkers for the liberal arts, like Cardinal Newman, the 19th-century English thinker and
writer, saw all fields of knowledge as connected ...
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11/2005 - I would recommend an all-girls school to all girls. At some point, a girl needs to be in an all-girl setting – whether in a school, college, girl scouts, or girls camp - because ...
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3/2005 - The kindergarten graduation at Washington Elementary was underway on a warm May evening in my Missouri hometown.
My five-year-old friends and I stood ...
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6/2004 - Our lives change constantly. We never know with precision what we will face tomorrow. So when tomorrow
comes, we have to be ready ...
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5/2004 - It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.” The Irish Proverb came to mind
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4/2004 - One of the most important things we can do as parents to ensure the success of our teens is to support their
social relationships ...
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4/2003 - Every year we receive hundreds of inquiries from families looking for educational alternatives.
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4/2003 - What persuades a young person to accept her own greatness? What allows her to see the connection between
the fire in her heart and ...
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2/2004 - Looking out on these fields, one might imagine that we have all the time in the world for friendship, for
learning, for growing ...
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1/2004 - In a large school, how do you hear the quiet voice, the thoughtful comment, the fresh insight ...
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11/2003 - Seventy-one percent of American high school students go to schools of one thousand or more, according to the U.S. Department ...
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6/2002 - Whether it’s English or mathematics, at Exeter we call all our classes “Harkness”
classes and our teachers “Harkness” teachers.
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