JED Notebook

Check out the latest JED Notebook article, Talking to Learn and Learning to Master, to read a classroom case study in alternative approaches to student learning and assessment. This article was originally featured in Bnei Akiva Schools' education journal, Reflections on Education and Learning, with a supplemental video highlighting the key points of the case study. Read more at https://lnkd.in/gUgzuhYj

"...I am aware that overt support for the State of Israel and the desire for a secular university experience, among other features, can still make the Modern Orthodox day school experience unique. But I would venture the possibility that, without an embrace of critical thinking with the demands of traditional observance, these values will eventually become some version of institutionally-driven dogma instead of hard-won and self-assured positions." Is this the future of Modern Orthodox day schools? Read more at https://lnkd.in/gsED-9W4

"Within a traditional framework of critical thinking, the Modern Orthodox approach to Judaic and general studies in school should force certain questions to the foreground, such as: Can the scientific worldview reconcile with the Torah?" Hillel David Rapp writes about the erosion of critical thinking in Modern Orthodox schools at https://lnkd.in/gQbpbnWW...

What's going on in Modern Orthodox day schools? Hillel David Rapp discusses the trade-offs of religious education within a secular framework and how Modern Orthodox schools are losing their most distinct features. Read more at https://lnkd.in/gsED-9W4