Archive - JED Notebook

Jewish education’s double payment problem — and a creative solution

Is it possible to lower the costs of Jewish day school education?

Jul 31 •

March 2025

JEDCast Episode 1: The Problem with Jewish Education

Listen now | A discussion with Rabbi Yosef Kurtz.

Mar 26 •

1:20:55

February 2025

In Jewish Day Schools, We Invest in Everything but Teachers

Jewish education does not lack philanthropic investment.

Feb 28 •

Considering The Changing Landscape in Modern Orthodox Israel Education

There have been many post-October 7 articles and essays looking at how the horrific and tragic events of that day, and the subsequent year-plus of war…

Feb 7 •

November 2024

Extended Time Is A Feature, Not A Bug

The error of extended time on tests and one radical idea to correct it.

Nov 1, 2024 •

June 2024

Talking to Learn and Learning to Master

A classroom case study in alternative approaches to student learning and assessment

Jun 6, 2024 •

March 2024

Trading Teenage Angst for Apathy

Modern Orthodox high schools may be losing their most distinct features.

Mar 27, 2024 •

February 2024

Teacher Drafts & Free-Agent Educators

An Alternative Teachers' Union

Feb 26, 2024 •

November 2023

What we get wrong about student happiness.

Jewish high schools, and high schools broadly, have a mental health problem.

Nov 23, 2023 •

Considering the role of Jewish high schools in sustaining Jewish engagement.

Jewish education has struggled to foster reliable strategy, at scale, that can help young people integrate the widely divergent values and worldviews…

Nov 23, 2023 •

Thinking about the future of Jewish education.

What I am advocating for here is that we rethink how we solicit and donate within Jewish education for the long term.

Nov 23, 2023 •

Reimagining Jewish high school.

Let’s imagine our alternative model for high school, where learning is not limited to defined time periods, where students are learning subjects that…

Nov 23, 2023 •

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