In 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted that computing power would double every 12-18 months. That observation, commonly known as Moore’s law, has held true for 45 years. The pace at which technology has permeated nearly every of our lives has roughly...
Although I have been an educator for nearly thirty years, I still do not have a high school diploma – and am proud of it. First, some context. After New York's hot, turbulent summers of the 1960s, the city started a variety of programs to keep kids off the streets in...
Chana German is the director of The Lookstein Center's website, Lookstein.org. Zvi Grumet is the editor of Jewish Educational Leadership. In this article, they investigate the possibility of using public, online charter schools to provide general education – at almost...
In the first school I taught there was a sign in the library: Education is expensive, but Ignorance costs even more. The cost of a Jewish education has far outpaced inflation. Statistics are easy to manipulate (the textbook for my statistics course was titled, “How to...
Growing up in BoroPark in the 1960s I was literally surrounded by people with numbers tattooed on their arms – my neighbors on both sides, people I saw in shul and the bakery – yet the Shoah was rarely ever discussed. One of the first times I ever heard it mentioned...
Mention "Active Learning" and you will likely get one of two responses. The first will be a puzzled, glazed-over look, as if you had just landed from Mars or returned from some education conference. The second is a different kind of puzzled look, indicating something...
It began with the Melting Pot. Immigrants lined up to look American, to speak like Americans, and even to change their names to sound American. My grandfather wanted to name his son Ephraim, but the hospital nurse insisted that he have an American name, Frederick....
My summers as a child were spent in a bungalow colony in the Catskill mountains. Almost completely cut off from civilization (there was one pay phone for 28 families), we delighted when movie night came. Some entrepreneur would show up with a 16mm projector, and a few...
Ask most lay people what comes to mind when they hear the term "gender" and they are likely to say something about women's issues or feminism. Ask most educators what comes to mind when they hear the term "gender" and they are likely to say something about girls in...
Anyone stepping into a position of leadership successfully led by others navigates a fine balance between following in the well-tread paths and blazing a new one. As someone who has been deeply involved in this journal since its inception, I appreciate that I have...
