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Education Staff Seminar Study/Mission (February 13-29, 1976) DOCUMENT RESUME ED 133 791 El 008 970 AUTHOR Reed, Judith, Ed. TITLE Impressions of Education in Israel. A Report of the Education Staff Seminar Study/Mission (February 13-29, 1976) . INSTITUTION George Washington Univ., Washington, D.C. Inst. for Educational Leadership. SPONS AGENCY Ford Foundation, Yew York, N.Y. PUB DATE Feb 76 NOTE 138p. EDRS PRICE MF-$0.83 HC-$7.35 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Citizen Participation; *Educational Planning; *Educational Policy; *Educational Programs; Educational Research; Elementary Secondary Education; *Evaluation Methods; Post Secondary Education; *Program Descriptions IDENTIFIERS *Israel ABSTRACT This 'publication is intended to provide readers with a broad pêrspective'on.education in Israel, based on the findings of participants in a iwo-week stud mission to Israel. Part 1 consists of 17 short reports on various opics Wated to ISraeli education. The majority of these reports deal with educational planning, policy, evaluation, and research; other reports focus on'community'and parent involvement, language policy, Arab education, instructional television, Sephardic-Ashkenazi differences, and women's status. Part 2"contains 18 brief reports by membeis of the study group on selected site visits in Israerand meetings with Israeli government officials and educational leaders. A copy of the study. group's itinerary is algo included. (Author/JG) 4 . Aw 1 :' * ***************************************************** ***************** * Doduments acquired by ERIC inciulde many informal unpubliphed * * materials notavailable from other sOarceg: ERIC makes every effort * * to obtain,the best copy availaple.,Neverteless, "items of marginal * * reproducibility are Often encountered and tAis affects the quality. * * of the microfiche and hardcopy repioductions ERIC makes availa,ble * * via the ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRH). EDRS is not * * responsible for the quality Of the origin41 darcument. Reproductions * * supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original. * t, **4******************************************************************** I1 lAWN1 NT 4,1141A41,4 'ONliVt NA tiONAI I DM A TIUN ...'. , . ,.. qj THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP IMPRESSIONS OF 4'1 DUCITION IN I IR EDUCATIONAL STAFF SEMINAR 1001 Connecticut Avenue, NW. Washington, D.C. 20036 . (202) 293-3166 ". FEBRUARY 1976 THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY INS TIT UTE FOR EDUCATIONAL)EA6iSHIPE- e 1tii Leciniership sett...)ks str.!ngthcin iht n iti -ry .1; It , 1H, l)f SfClf,! 1[1,1 f( 1,1'11 l;_j1)Vt I ir In 4IC", f I If I,I Itlf 1(1 'f y 1 feW/41..t 'f( 4 1, It. pr,")(ircrl [di helicANship Proir T H 11 it/ xif 17 `;`;; It, Ifl( IAO ,stsecorld(in, , Authority (PE( 'A) a 3! 'fit if',11 pile Lidi titk r n is ini (1u, t, "f)%-'0.11( y ; ,mrr (i Proi,it'II- r Li% ) 1 i (1 tional 'Journalism A r,,,-,c1rom iho \i'VrIshiniator) lir\. /I |is ir J.( tr,,r1I !'' Ain( kill( it) k !I, ft:Ederdl gr(Ants arid contr,Jcts Telephone: (202)833-1737 INSTITUTE ADVISCRY BOARD 'N CHAIRPERSON DR. BERNICE SANDLER DR L OUIS H. MAYO . Director. Proiect on the Status and Education of Women President tor Pohci; Studies and Special Pro(tricts Association of American LoHeges. Washington, D C, Washinater University. K Z. CHAVIS HARRY %IcPHERSON, JR. Prograrn Director Vvashingtn Leadership Development Program, Atlanta HONORABLE ,JOHN PITItNC,ER DR. JOHN DUNWORTH f.ducotion President run U;ehrge Peabody College, RICE DR LLOYDELLIOTT I'reederit President' Esc.nrc.1 The Gt-:\orge Wasninglon Un1versitY HONORABLE: MARY RIEKE .dte Reocesentahee DR. MICHAEL FAY , Director DR. ALAN ROSENTHAL United Teachers Los Angeles Urnan Project DN-L.ctor FRANCiS KEPPEL F.aglet8n institute of Politics. Rutgers .University -Director DR. PALA_ B SALMON Aspen Institute Education Program r-xecutive Director . HONORABLE HOWARD KLEBANOFF American Assôciation of School Administrators Oh, irp44.soroi. HOuse Education Committeo p,ICHApp SNYDER Ha ord. Connecticut %tersnon Prof.=I;:,,ttor of Education and Pubhc Policy R TH MANCUSO (..ihro State lJniversity r- airperson DR. CHARLES WATTS .N Jers y State Board of E-ducation 'A:ar Trap Farm Founddtion RUBY G MARTIN Gerefai Course! Committee on'the Distnct of Columbia DR PAUL N. YLVISAKEV U 3 House of Representatives _ Dean. Har,oru Grad( (ate School of Education INSTITUTE'STAFF POSTSECONDAF "..:ATION CONVENING SAMUEL HALPERIN. Director AUTHORITY DIETRA ROGES Chief Administrative Officer T,1 ' ,t JUNE FRANK Budget. Officer n P'r r (!' , EDUCATIONAL STAFF SEMOIAR UCATION POLICY PROjECT tHARON ENRIGHTDirector DONNA GOLD. Assistant Director , FAMILY IMPACT SEMINAR THE ASSOCIATES PROGRAM\ JAMES BROWNE ,Coordinator EDUCATION POUCY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM PROJECT ON COMPENSATORY ED CATICN PAUL SCHINDLER --.Dirr.tP-7' ...- % "OPTIONS IN EDUCATIOfr OMER NATIONAL FORD FELLOWS IN EDUCAIIONAL PUBLIC RADIO JOURNALISM . JOHN MERROW Producer :t\TE '/ 00, IMPRESSIONS OF EDUCATION IN ISRAEL r A Report of the Educational Staff Seminar Study Mission Fel?ruary i 3-29,1976 Edited by ,kaclith Reed Tor11111E1Pot ...1111111111 4 / 4 OF.EDUCATIdN IN ISRAEL . IMPRESSIONS Report of the Educational Staff Seminar StudyMission ' February 13-29, 1976 TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE FROM THE DIRECTOR OF IEL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ,INTRODUCtION iii ITINERARY vii t:ART'I: SPECIAL rNTEREST REPORTS *EDUCATION ducational Planning, Barry Stern and W. Phillips Rockefeller 1 Educational Policy Formulation Michael-H. Annison, Educational Research Paul E. Cawein 1-2 ,Educational Evaluation Bert Mogin 16 Israel's System of Evalu&ting Schools Ruth W.:Crowley 17 Language Policy and Education Dorothy Waggoner 20 Vocational Educayion Dorothy Shuler 25 Community Involvemnt Susan Wiener 28 Parent Involvement in Early Childhood Education Among Disadvantaged Groups Judith Reed 32 :Arab Education David B. Orr 41 Instructional Television 'Arthur S. Kirschenbaum 48 5 Availability, Use and Copywriting of 51 Educational Materials Morton W. Bachrach Education Costs for Parents Stephen M. Kraut 54 *HEALTH SERVICES Tipat Halav: Background and Administrative Overview Alice Hersh 55 Linking Families to Health Services: _Toward a program that Works ;Wendy Lazarus 60 *SOCIAL ISSUES A Future Perspective on the Sephardic- Ashkenazi Differences Harley Frankel 66 Some Aspects.of Women's Status Miriam Carliner 69 PART II: 'SELECTED SITE VISITS AND MEETINGS Departmentoflinguistics,Bar Ilan University 78/ Meeting witb-Arie.Fink, Chief, Rehabilitation Branch, Ministry f Defense 79 Beit Halokhem, ri rs' House" 83 Briefing prior-tirVi t 'to Jules Army_, Base 86 Ne'urim Youth Village-Hadassah. 89 Oranim, ,Kibbutzim State College 91 University of Haifa. 94 Arab Community Center, Village of Tamra. 96 Kiryat Eliezer, Ulpan for new immigrants 99 Meeting with Hon. Shalom Levin, Member ofNthe Knesset and Secretary, Israel Teachers' Uniom 100 Denmark CoMprehensive School, Katamon, Jerusalem 102 Meetinwith Zr. Chanan Rapaport, Di;ector, Hennotetta Szold Institute 104 Visit to the School of Education, Hebrew University. 105 Meeting with Hon. Elad Peled, Director- General, Ministry of Education and Culture 108 Comprehensive High School "D", Beersheba 112 Meeting with Dr. Eliezer D. Jaffe, School of Social Work, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 114 C.rttral Statistical Office, Jerusalem 117 Itteeting with Hon. Eliezer Shmueli, Deputy Director-General, Ministry of 4 Education and Culture 119 APPENDIXES List of Participants on ESS Study Mission to Israel A-1 Description of the Educational Staff Seminar A-3 4 7 PRITACI'. FROM .'111E DIRIrfOR OF IEL As one who believes passionateiy in the importance of continui adult education and inserviceyrofessional development, I exp my appreeiatioa to the participants in the 1976 ESS stOdy miss 04 to Israek. This report of your educational visit once again i )- iiides convincing evidence that overseas travel-study 'is meaningful to federal policy aides and that it is possible for well-motivated travelers to learn a great deal in a foreign culture, even if one's time is short and.the attrhetions many. When ESS began its series of overseas study missions in 1971, there were the inevitable cynics wbo labeled them-"junkets" and "boondoggles."Over time, these field trips,have proven them- selves invaluable in stiMulating federal education officials to think more deeply about fhe meaning and purposes of education, about the tradeoffs tmplicit in various types of educafidnal"., structures and programs, about governmental and societal respon- sibility to promote educational change.Moreoever; we have seen how the intensity of ESS field trips enables members of the federal education establishment to develop new.and beiter ways of communi- cation among themselves, a benefit which remains longafter the study mission has,ended: It was good for me, Personally, to lead this third study mdssion to Israel. I made new friends among my fellow Washingtonians, found new respect for Israel's educational leaders, and gained new admiration for the dedieated nation-building which surrounded us everywhere we traveled from Dan to Beersheba. So, to the people of ESS and to the people of Israel: "Todah RabbahThank you:" .Samuel Halperin DirectOr, Institute for Educational Leadership , ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Many people 4nd organizations combined to make our study mission to Israel an effective and memorable one. While this acknowledgement cannot fully discharge our debt to them; we offer a hearty "Todah Rabbah!" (Thank you!) to: OUR HOSTS AND PROGRAM ARRANGERS'IN ISRAEL-- Honorable Eliezer Shmueli,
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