[etni] Re: Livnat sets up 'national task force' to promote education
- From: michele ben <benfam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 14:11:47 +0200
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I just read the article. It seems like a very bad joke. Perhaps the Israel
spends the most on educational *bureaucracy* in the western world, because it's
hard to believe that with 40 kids in a class, hours cut, no rooms in school,
broken furniture, electricity part-time, not enough books, no place to sit
during free hours except a very crowded teachers' room, a rocky dirt path that
leads to the library and other amenities that money for education is being spent
properly or at all. Of 'course the teachers are to blame. That's why we will
all have to work for corrupt local authorities and be subject to the whim of
whichever Rosh Ir is elected. In addition, it would be criminal to involve
anyone who really works as a teacher or in education in the committee trying to
improve the educational system. How encouraging.
Michele
Ask Etni wrote:
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> Livnat sets up 'national task force' to promote education
> Haaretz - September 21, 2003
>
> The government on Sunday approved the appointment of a committee described
> by Education Minister Limor Livnat as a "national task force for the
> promotion of education in Israel," to be headed by ECI-Telecom chairman
> Shlomo Dovrat.
>
> Livnat decided to appoint the committee a few months ago following continued
> failures by Israeli students in international exams as well as internal
> Education Ministry exams in mathematics and language comprehension.
>
> Livnat said the committee's role would be to find out "what's rotten in the
> education system." She added that "the public spending on education in
> Israel is among the highest in the world, and yet the students' achievements
> are among the lowest in the Western world."
>
> (Read the whole article at -
> www.etni.org.il/news/taskforce.htm
> or
> www.etni.org/news/taskforce.htm )
>
> The ETNI Team
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