This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, Vol. 2, Issue 1, 1987, pp. 18-19. Appears here with permission. For many years the Board of Education at Moriah Day School in Englewood, N.J. had planned to initiate a program which would include sex education. Their goal...
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, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 1989, pp. 29-30. Appears here with permission. "Abba, you must help me with my homework tonight!" No words fill me with greater terror than those seemingly innocent ones spoken by my thirteen year old at...
First Thoughts - The Illusion Neal Gabler (2002), the social critic, notes that for decades observers have been saying that Americans live in the world of their own illusions, “built to their specifications and designs to replace the disorder and discomfort of the...
This article presents a curriculum to help High School graduates navigate the College environment. To read the article, click here.
This article originally appeared in Ten Daat 1996, 9:1, pp. 83-86. Reprinted here with permission. Over the last several years, two trends have emerged-one in the general culture and one in the Jewish-which pose an interesting and unprecedented challenge to day school...
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...
Yonatan Yussman: Joint Graduate Education Program – Pardes and Hebrew University "Jewish education is the great failure of contemporary Jewish life", writes Professor Barry Chazan of The Hebrew University. I would add to that indictment our failure in keeping the...
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...