Month: March 2016
Bric TV 2/1/16: Yeshiva Education in Brooklyn and One Student’s Departure
This is an excellent TV report on the inadequacy of the education which boys receive in Brooklyn yeshivas. The show features commentary by Naftuli Moster of YAFFED and an analysis by David C. Bloomfield, an education policy expert.
NY Daily News 2/7/16: Thousands of Yeshiva Boys in NYC Ill-Educated
Thousands of ill-educated yeshiva boys
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Sunday, February 7, 2016, 4:25 AM
They deserve better
Each year, approximately 32,000 boys in New York City are not being taught science, history and geography among other subjects. If they’re lucky to be under the age of 13, they get 90 minutes of English and math, taught by untrained and unlicensed teachers.
Alarmingly, when these boys turn 14, most of them spend 14 hours a day in school, from around 6:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., yet learn no general subjects at all. An estimated 17,500 additional boys attending schools in Rockland and Orange Counties are subjected to the same.
Advocates for Justice 
The East Ramapo School District is no stranger to questions of fairness. Accusations of partisanship have become par for the course for the upstate New York district’s board, most of whose members are Orthodox and Hasidic Jews presiding over public schools that their children do not attend. But this time, the questions are directed at New York’s Board of Regents, the committee that supervises the Department of Education.
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