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Funders of the Long-term Planning for British Jewry project The Lord Ashdown Charitable Settlement The John S. Cohen Foundation Sue Hammerson OBE The Lord and Lady Haskel Charitable Foundation Housing Corporation Jewish Care Jewish Chronicle The Stanley Kalms Foundation The Joseph Levy Charitable Foundation The Catherine Lewis Foundation Nightingale House Norwood-Ravenswood Felix Posen United Jewish Israel Appeal The Charles Woolfson Charitable Trust The future ofJewish schooling in the United Kingdom A strategic assessment of a faith-based provision of primary and secondary school education OliverValins, Barry Kosmin,Jacqueline Goldberg jpr/ Institute for Jewish Policy Research First published in Great Britain in 2001 by Institute for Jewish Policy Research 79 Wimpole Street London WIG 9RY in association with Profile Book.<; Ltd 58A Hatton Garden London ECIN Bl.X Copyright © Oliver Valins, Barry Kosmin, jacqueline Goldberg 2001 The moral right of the authors has been asserted. All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owners and the publisher of this book Designed and typeset in Garamond by MacGuru [email protected] Printed in Great Britain by Hobbs the Printers A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 0 901113 28 X Contents List of tables and figures .................................................. viii Acknowledgements............................................................ .xi Note on authors ................................................................ xiii Preface ............................................................................... xv 1 Introduction ..................................................................... .1 Aims of the report ............................................................... 1 The growth of Jewish day schools ..................................... 2 A brief history of Jewish day school provision in the United Kingdom .................................................................. 6 A 'crisis' of Jewish education ............................................ 10 Structure of the report ...................................................... 13 2 Primary and secondary school education in the United Kingdom ................................................. 17 The UK system of school education ................................ 18 Religion in UK schools ..................................................... 25 The provision of Judaic education and religious worship ............................................................... 26 3 The system(s) and the users of Jewish day school education ....................................... 31 Profile of the UK Jewish population ................................ 31 Profile of UK Jewish· parents ............................................ 32 The control of Jewish day schools .................................. 35 The system (or systems) of Jewish day school education ........................................................ 37 Conclusions ...................................................................... .46 4 Educational assessment of general subjects in Jewish day schools .................................................... 49 Performance indicators .................................................... .51 Explaining the academic performance of Jewish day school pupils .................................................. 58 Conclusions ....................................................................... 67 5 Educational assessment ofJudaic subjects in Jewish day schools ......................................................... 69 The Pikuach report ........................................................... 70 GCSE data .......................................................................... 72 GCE data ............................................................................ 76 Conclusions ....................................................................... 80 6 Key strategic issues facing central Orthodox and Progressive Jewish day schools .................................. 83 Provision of places ............................................................ 84 Human resources .............................................................. 87 Financing ........................................................................... 94 Communication and information ..................................... 95 Conclusions ..................................................................... 100 7 Key strategic issues facing strictly Orthodox schools ........................................................................... 103 Provision of places .......................................................... 105 Human resources ............................................................ 106 Financing and accommodation ...................................... 109 Conclusions ..................................................................... 111 8 Jewish day school provision for children with special educational needs (SEN) ................................ 113 SEN in the Jewish community ........................................ 115 Conclusions ..................................................................... 123 9 The educational marketplace: how Jewish parents choose between different schools ........... .. 127 Academic standards ........................................................ 128 Ethos ................................................................................ 130 Geographical location ..................................................... 136 Added values ................................................................... 138 Conclusions ..................................................................... 139 10 Towards the future ofJewish day schooling .... ...... 141 The effectiveness of a faith-based provision of day school education ............................................................. 142 Key strategic issues facing Jewish day schools ............. 148 The future of Jewish day schooling ............................... 155 The research agenda for long-term planning for Jewish schooling ............................................................. 158 Bibliography ....................................................................161 Educational and judaic glossary ................................... 165 List of tables and figures Table 1.1 Growth in attendance at Jewish day schools from 1950 to 1999 ............................................................... 3 Table 1.2 Percentage of British Jews educated in full-time Jewish primary or secondary day schools according to age cohort ..................................................... .4 Table 1.3 Attendance at Jewish day schools, 1999 ................ .5 Table 2.1 Different types of schools ...................................... l9 Table 2.2 Main categories of schools .................................... 20 Table 2.3 Key stage system .................................................... 23 Figure 2 Key stage system and expected National Curriculum attainment levels ............................................ 24 Table 3.1 Percentage of parents with school-age children who sent their eldest child to a Jewish day school according to Jewish identity ................................. 33 Table 3.2 Jewish day school parents' feelings about being Jewish ...................................................................... 34 Table 3.3 Pattern of attendance at synagogue over the past year for Jewish day school parents .......................... 35 Figure 3.1 The place of primary and secondary Jewish day schools in the UK 'system' of Jewish education ...... 38 Figure 3.2 Possible day school choices for Jewish parents .................................................................. .40 Figure 3.3 Primary and secondary Jewish day schools in Great Britain according to religious affiliation ................ 42 Table 4.1 Percentage of key stage one pupils achieving expected National Curriculum level results in state-sector Jewish and national schools 1996-9 ............................................................................... .51 viii LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES Table 4.2 Percentage of key stage two pupils achieving expected National Curriculum level results in state-sector Jewish and national schools 1996-9 ............ .52 Table 4.3 Percentage of key stage three pupils achieving
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