**** ETNI on the web http://www.etni.org.il http://www.etni.org **** Worth your attention: "Much of the growing policy interest in teaching and teacher development was provoked by /What Matters Most/, the 1996 report of The National Commission on Teaching & America's Future. Among other findings, the Commission demonstrated that investments in teacher knowledge and skills net greater increases in student achievement than other uses of an education dollar." (Target Time Toward Teachers, by Linda Darling-Hammond./ Journal of Staff Development/, Spring 1999 (Vol. 20, No. 2) To read the whole article: http://www.nsdc.org/library/publications/jsd/darling202.cfm I wonder what Dovrat knows that The American National Commission on Teaching does not. I also wonder how this compares to what Itzhak Levy, the then Minister of Ed., wrote in 1997 about "gmul hishtalmut": It is time to stop paying teachers for the time they spend taking all these courses - there are many other, much better uses for this money. Lev ##### To send a message to the ETNI list email: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ##### ##### Send queries and questions to: ask@xxxxxxxx #####