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Category Archives: Education
Harvard Westlake Salaries
Harvard Westlake is the premiere high school in Los Angeles. I went to Guidestar.org and found this 990 form filed for 2013, which listed salaries as follows: * Thomas C. Hudnut: $811,642 * Robert D. Levin: $241,095 * John Amato: … Continue reading
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Why Do Americans Stink At Math?
That’s the headline for this New York Times Magazine story, which fails to break down America’s math scores on racial grounds. When you do that, you see that Japanese-Americans do about as well at math as the Japanese and America’s … Continue reading
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Nation Magazine Essay Shows America Has Tired Of School Desegregation
The Nation is a left-wing magazine and yet it has produced an even-handed look at the new racial segregation in schools, eliciting comments like this: I attended Malcolm X Elementary School in Berkeley, CA in the early ’70s. I’m white, … Continue reading
Who Gets To Graduate?
Steve Sailer writes: Paul Tough in the New York Times has a long article “Who Gets to Graduate” on the high college dropout rate of working class kids, focusing on some black girl from a mediocre Dallas area high school … Continue reading
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Eager Young Minds?
Steve Lopez writes in the Los Angeles Times about California: “At every level, cuts decimate once-great institutions and devalue our greatest resource — eager young minds.” I went to school for many years in California and only on the rarest … Continue reading
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Rethinking Jewish Day Schools
From DonnaBurstyn.com: I was calculating what I spent on the education of my four daughters before they hit college. Three of them went to Orthodox Jewish day schools. A fourth one went until third grade and then was in other … Continue reading
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Tagged archdiocese of los angeles, catholic day, jewish day school, jewish day schools, orthodox jewish community, practicing catholic
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New Jersey’s Eloquent New Governor Chris Christie
He announced a constitutional amendment for November to cap property taxes at no more than 2.5% per year. A teacher complained she should make more money, say, $83,000 a year or $3 per pupil. “You’re not compensating me for my … Continue reading
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Tagged christie, constitutional amendment, Dennis Prager, new hero, pay scale, presidential material, property taxes, pupil
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When A Staffer At An Orthodox School Marries A Non-Jew
Joe emails: “What should a modern orthodox school do when a jewish staff member marries a non jewish staff member? Legally they can terminate both of them, but what SHOULD they do? Shalhevet has long had a female Jewish secular … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Shalhevet
Tagged blanket policy, discrimination laws, goy, jewish teacher, religious discrimination, religious function, secular studies, shanda
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Jewish Day Schools
Joe emails: Orthodox day schools cost a lot because they essentially have to pay two staffs. The secular staff that teaches the same hours as public school, in a somewhat less dangerous environment (jews wield a sixth sense, not a … Continue reading
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Tagged campaign pledge, dead jews, jewish days, rabbi aron tendler, vow of poverty, wiesenthal center
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Why Do Jewish Day Schools Cost Three Times As Much As Roman Catholic Day Schools?
You can send your child to a Roman Catholic day school for $6,000 a year. If you want to send your child to YULA or Shalhevet and you have to pay full price, that will cost you about $20,000 a … Continue reading
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Tagged orthodox jew, orthodox jewish life, orthodox judaism, priests and nuns, shabbat dinner, traditional jewish life
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