Education
The Education System in Israel Must be Less Centralized
Rami Hod wrote an op-ed for about the Haredi (ultra-orthodox) education budgeting in which he castigated Kohelet Policy Forum – and misrepresented the facts. Here at Kohelet Forum...
Following the HCJ ruling on Special Ed
In One Line:The Supreme Court canceled the Ministry of Education’s policy decision that shortened the school day in the Special Ed system due to a shortage of teaching staff....
Education Policy Memo
The claim that there is a shortage of teachers, amounting up to thousands of teachers a year, is being made more and more often in public discourse. Israel does...
Personal Contracts in the Education System: A Step in the Right Direction, but Hardly Enough.
Avrum Tomer, Kohelet Policy Forum researcher of education policy, comments in a Makor Rishon article on the merits of the Ministry of Education’s declaration to allow some teachers to...
Will the new Education Minister overcome the odds?
If the new education minister decides to fundamentally change the employment model within education she will have overcome a decade old battle.
Failing Grade: Israel’s Teachers Don’t Deserve a Raise
After two decades of granting wage hikes with little to show for them, the Israeli public has the right to make some demands of its own from the teachers’...