A 2021 meta-analysis by Yehuda Wacks and Aviv Feinstein of Ariel University concluded that excessive smartphone use among adolescents “is associated with psychiatric, cognitive, emotional,
It may seem obvious, but it bears stating that the most important factor in a school’s quality is its staff, especially its faculty and leaders.
I don’t particularly want to sound like Sarah Palin, but the term “holiday season” irks me. It smacks of a pernicious movement to homogenize society
How can you get the most out of Parent-Teacher conferences? First of all, go. The competition for your time is fierce, but investing time in
Last May, a New Hampshire school board voted to encourage teachers to celebrate only one “group” birthday a month. The motivation behind the decision was
Our schools are great. I really believe that. And because of that, I’m confident that the leaders and teachers in our schools can put their
In some ways it seems that we, as educators, ignore that the school year begins in Elul. We spend much time learning about the texture
Experts call it “summer learning loss.” It’s the educational tar pit that sucks kids’ learning out of them during long days of unfocused activity and
Isaac Asimov was right. The dangers of artificial intelligence that he foreshadowed in his collection of short stories, I, Robot, are coming true today, most
An article in the Wall Street Journal this winter reported that schools are getting a taste of their own medicine. At least ten states have
Rabbi Dr. Noam Weinberg, in an article posted on JewishIdeas.org, speaks of the need for today’s Jewish educators to be able to relate to their
A recent report by DNAinfo.com reporter Sonja Sharp starts out with a lie. She writes that “[M]ost Orthodox Jewish schools offer limited instruction in English,
