This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, Vol. 2, Issue 1, 1987, p. 24. Appears here with permission. In assessing why a student may be having difficulty, a teacher or psychologist would of course examine the child's academic setting and intellectual potential....
This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, Vol. 1, Issue 1, 1987, pp. 5-6. Appears here with permission. The yeshiva student, like any other student, must cope with a variety of academic, social, familial, and medical problems which can affect classroom...
This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 1989, pp. 27-28. Appears here with premission. Dear Rabbi, Mrs. and Ms., We are very concerned by what appears to us as an excessive amount of homework assigned to our second grader. It has taken her an...
This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at 1, 1, 1987, pp. 9-11. Reprinted here with permission. THE PROBLEM Lengthy conversations with some groups of students, graduates, parents and teachers, as well as our own observations, have convinced us that cheating is...
The large attrition rate among new teachers led over thirty states in America to mandate the implementation of mentoring programs for beginning teachers. This method traditionally provides a new teacher with support from an experienced veteran as part of an induction...
About the author: The author has taught in a private independent school for the past 26 years. He holds Bachelors of Education degree from McGill University and a Masters degree in Educational Technology from City University in Washington. The following article based...
A few months back an interesting and to my mind potentially important debate on the question of pluralism in schools opened up in these pages. Many of us weighed in debating the pros and cons of pluralistic Jewish education, trying to define what that phrase meant...
This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at 1, 2, 1987, pp. 16-17. Reprinted here with permission. DR. POSNER, Vice President-elect of the Association of Jewish Libraries, is a consultant for the JWB-Jewish Book Council and the UJA Federation of New York. She is the...
This article was originally published in Ten Da'at 5,2 (1991), pp. 39-40. Imagine that your son is taught to read the Cyrillic alphabet (although he doesn't understand the Russian language), and instructed to read thirty pages from The Gulag Archipelago, in Russian....
This article examines the association between reading problems and behavior problems in bilingual situations. To read the article, click here.