Breaking Down the Walls

Breaking Down the Walls

by David Brummer
The start of the new school year can be a time of great anticipation and also trep­idation for both parents and students. I do not have children myself, but I un­derstand that the Israeli educational system can be a little uneven. AMIT, an educational net­ work consisting of 110 schools and 45,000 stu­dents across the country — religious and secular — claims that it will provide an educational rev­olution that will facilitate change in the class­room.

The Jerusalem Post: Farewell, Bagrut System?

By Amnon Eldar, director general of the AMIT network
The Education Ministry recently published its various measures for evaluating schools in Israel and it is to be commended for its policy of transparency. However, in 2018, Israeli society’s view of bagrut (matriculation exam) scores should be the subject of in-depth discussion.