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The Blogs: What is a PALMAR?
1+ hour, 37+ min ago (616+ words) Tuvia Book has a doctorate in education and is the author and illustrator of the internationally acclaimed Israel education curriculum; "For the Sake of Zion; A Curriculum of Israel Studies" (Fifth edition, Koren), "Jewish Journeys, The Second Temple Period to…...
The Blogs: The Hidden Curriculum of Antizionism: What the Slogans Hide
13+ hour, 17+ min ago (297+ words) The scandal is not what antizionist syllabi teach. It's what they have to hide. His student, Elliot Eisner, named its companion in 1979: the null curriculum. The subjects and authors who get buried because they complicate the lesson. The texts that…...
The Blogs: DOE probes NYC schools over antisemitism'finally! !
15+ hour, 21+ min ago (816+ words) Karen Feldman is a veteran NYC public middle school history teacher with over 26 years of experience and a leading creator of Holocaust curricula that promote tolerance and combat prejudice. She received the 2023 Louis E. Yavner Teaching Award for excellence in Holocaust…...
The Blogs: Why Do Select Jewish Day Schools Succeed and Others Fail?
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (618+ words) The first question is definitional in nature. In other words, how do we define and delineate success; and what does success really look like. Only by first defining success'can we possibly understand, appreciate or describe why and how schools fail....
The Blogs: Making Israel Relevant to Students
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (363+ words) In a classroom where smartphones buzz with the latest viral claim about Israel, teaching the country through dry timelines and archaeological layers alone is not education, it is surrender. Young minds deserve lessons that make Israel pulse with relevance, turning…...
The Blogs: I Thought I'd Seen Everything, Holland is Lost
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (380+ words) The Erosion of Academia: When Education Becomes Indoctrination The hallowed halls of our universities were once designed to be the ultimate battlegrounds of ideas, spaces where critical thinking, rigorous debate, and the pursuit of objective truth reigned supreme. However, we…...
The Blogs: When Commencement Becomes Division: A Serious Test of Responsibility
3+ day, 26+ min ago (448+ words) I returned to the University of Michigan, my alma mater, to attend a family member's graduation and to spend several meaningful days in Ann Arbor. Three generations of our family gathered there, united by a shared history with the university…...
The Blogs: Adrenaline as an Anaesthetic for Auschwitz
6+ day, 11+ hour ago (903+ words) Her stated reason was that Auschwitz is "too depressing" for a full second day, so the students needed something lighter to balance it out. The plan never materialized. Not because of moral. .. - Follow You will receive email alerts from this…...
The Blogs: Europe and the Illusion of Stability
6+ day, 13+ hour ago (895+ words) Between Self-Image, Geopolitics and the Role of the University Beneath the language of inclusion, cooperation and progress, subtle fractures begin to reveal themselves. Polarisation deepens, geopolitical tensions intensify, and trust in institutions erodes'quietly, persistently. Europe does not appear to be…...
The Blogs: Science educators can't be silent on Palestine " I can't be silent about them.
1+ week, 19+ hour ago (704+ words) Joseph Mintz is Professor of Inclusive Education at UCL. He engages in research on inclusion, special educational needs, teacher education for inclusion and has led research projects funded by government and national agencies. He has written for the Jewish Chronicle,…...