by Ken Gordon | Jan 15, 2013 | 21st-century learning, Board Leadership, Leadership, North American Jewish Day School Conference
So you’re going to the North American Jewish Day School Conference. What’s your social media strategy? That is: How are you going to use all the great communications tools at your disposal to make the most of your conference networking? No entirely sure? No worries....
by Charles Cohen | Jan 8, 2013 | Affordability, Communal Responsibility, Development, Value Proposition
Rather than address day school affordability, the Conservative Movement needs to organize the national flow of all education dollars based on strategies that effectively cultivate and empower the next generation. Our kehillot, USY, Schechter, Ramah, JTS, and AJU, must...
by Charles Cohen | Jan 8, 2013 | Affordability, Communal Responsibility, Focus Areas
Affordability is creating (or should create) a Jewish education identity crisis. Day schools can be cheap, and day schools can be good—we know how to create both of these models. It is not clear that they actually can be both, which should force us to ask whether they...
by Charles Cohen | Jan 8, 2013 | Affordability, Focus Areas
As we think about the day school affordability issue, we at RAVSAK continue to think about the underlying tensions between cost and value. As Jewish day schools increase their capacity to showcase their value and as public schools tighten their belts due to declines...
by Charles Cohen | Jan 8, 2013 | 21st-century learning, Affordability, Focus Areas, Innovation
Blended learning Day Schools offer the promise of lower costs while improving the quality of the education our children receive. The first such day school, Yeshivat He’Atid in Bergenfield, New Jersey, has gotten off to a tremendous start with 116 students and...
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