[etni] fw: The long school day and the short school week
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The long school day and the short school week
Haaretz - August 26, 2004
Three months ago the Education Ministry hired Dr Yaakov Sheinin, the CEO
of Economic Models, to study - from the economic viewpoint in particular
- the transition to a short school week.
Using international comparisons, he found that all but two of the
countries in the OECD (Organization for Economic and Development
Cooperation), have a short school week. In almost all of them, there is
a parallel long school day. The OECD groups 30 member countries in a
forum to discuss, develop and refine global economic and social
policies.
In Israel the current situation is different. In most schools where a
shorter school week was introduced, the school day was lengthened by
just one hour a day. The long school day, despite being anchored in
law, has been implemented in only 41 of the 100 local councils that are
supposed to have it.
Another oddity is that, only a week after the Education Ministry turned
to the Knesset Education Committee to approve the shorter school week,
it is sending it another proposal - to postpone the long school day
until 2010.
This apparent contradiction is because the ministry is just putting out
fires and not making organized structural changes. The regulations on
the shorter school week govern an existing situation in which 83
schools have implemented it but the laws have not been adjusted.
Regulations postponing it until 2010 aim to protect the ministry from
contempt of court.
(To read the whole article, go to:
www.etni.org/news/shortweek.htm
or
www.etni.org.il/news/shortweek.htm )
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