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...
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...
Boards of Education and Day Schools Louis Bernstein This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at 2, 2, 1988, pp. 26-27. Reprinted here with permission. DR. BERNSTEIN is Chairman of the Board of Mizrachi, Associate Professor at the Isaac Breuer College of Hebraic...
Reprinted here with permission. Classes at the Cheder at Congregation Adas Yehuda V'Shoshana met three days a week for approximately 5.5 hours per week. To view the various parts of the curriculum, please click on one of the links below. Stated Purpose Kri'ah and...
Prof. Aryeh Wohl was the Educational Director of the Center for Educational Technology (CET-MATACH) in Israel for thirty years. He is the Senior Editor and Senior writer responsible for the Open University of Israel courses on Literacy, taught at Tel Aviv University...
This article originally appeared in Tradition, 19,4, Winter 1981. Reprinted here with permission. Israel hardly seems to be the location from which to launch a critique of the Jewish day school in America. Yet, Israel provides a unique perspective on the subject....