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Ashmoret CEO explains how the company harnesses its purchasing power and expanding range of services to improve educators’ lives and strengthen the country’s education system
Special for Ma'ariv | Architects and educators are seeking to change the concept of the school: fewer corridors and uniform classrooms, more flexible spaces, connection to nature and various options for learning, for staying and personal development
One mom swapped the pediatrician's office for CVS MinuteClinic for her kid's back-to-school vaccines. Here's how it went, and what to know before you go.
More than a hundred students in ten kibbutzim in the Gaza envelope and the Lebanon border will receive this year personal and ongoing academic support as part of a collaboration between the Rehabilitation Fund of the Kibbutz Movement and the iSchool Association.
The Sorting Hat would be proud. The post A Pittsburgh school went from 130 fights per year to 10, using an idea from ‘Harry Potter’ appeared first on Upworthy.
In the final weeks of the big vacation, when many children are left without a program, the Jerusalem Municipality operates camps until September 1 for hundreds of children who need an extra support network, with professional staff and tailored activities.
The Education Minister told The Jerusalem Post that current regulations guarantee privacy, while the new AI implementation policy allows only adaptive and scalable solutions.
The bag is already standing by the door, the pencil case is organized, the name stickers have been stuck on every notebook. The child is excited, maybe even counting days. Then, somewhere on an evening at the end of August, a small and troubling question arises in the parent: Wait, is he really ready? I encounter this question every year, and behind it almost always hides another question: Have I prepared him enough? Many parents mean this in terms of letters, numbers, writing the name. But from my experience, the transition to first grade relies far less on academic knowledge than it seems, and far more on quiet emotional and social abilities that are easy to miss. The bag is already standing by the door, the pencil case is organized, the name stickers have been stuck on every notebook. The child is excited, maybe even counting days. Then, somewhere on an evening at the end of August, a small and troubling question arises in the parent: Wait, is he really ready? I encounter this question every year, and behind it almost always hides another question: Have I prepared him enough? Many parents mean this in terms of letters, numbers, writing the name. But from my experience, the transition to first grade relies far less on academic knowledge than it seems, and far more on quiet emotional and social abilities that are easy to miss. The post Preparation for First Grade: What Really Matters That the Child Should Know Before the First Day appeared first on Salona.
In the upcoming school year, a new pilot will launch in Shoham’s mandatory kindergartens, combining mathematical thinking with boosting children’s confidence and motivation. Kindergarten teachers will receive professional guidance and tools for learning through play, inquiry, and problem solving.
Special – many parents are facing, ahead of the new school year, the transition of their child from a daycare to a municipal kindergarten. Kati Goberman-Shob, the early childhood pedagogical supervisor at Vico, emphasizes that preparation already begins now.
California will be helping teens mold their futures as early as possible, by requiring every high schooler to pass a financial literacy course. Legislation now being implemented after its passage in 2024 made California the 26th state to require a stand-alone personal finance course for all public high school students (including charter schools). The one-semester […] The post California Joins 30 States to Require Financial Literacy Courses For Teens in Every High School appeared first on Good News Network.
At the end of August there is a particular scent in Israel. The scent of nylon wrappers, of equipment lists circulating in WhatsApp groups, of parents trying to remember whether they bought a 15‑line notebook or a 20‑line one. Millions of families are organizing for the September 1 bell, and it is an exciting preparation — a new start, old friends, a teacher they have not yet met. Within that picture there are families asking a completely different question. Not "Which grade is he entering" but "Does he even need to step into a classroom at all." To many parents this question sounds subversive, perhaps even dangerous. But if you strip away the emotional layer, what remains is a perfectly legitimate educational question: Does a child really have to spend most of his school‑age hours inside a class of about thirty students in order to grow into a curious, learned, and socially connected person? The post "Home Learning Without School: Is It Possible to Raise Curious, Educated, and Social Children Outside the System?" first appeared in Salona.
Three teachers who left the education system and returned years later to teaching, even to the same school where they previously worked, explain what made them leave, what brought them back, and how much they look forward to the upcoming start of the school year.
Just before the start of the school year and the elections, the Fourth Quarter movement launches a campaign to change the education system: transferring authority to the field, changing budgeting and teacher employment, and a shared core that will constitute half of the curriculum in every institution.
Nahariya was selected as one of the winners of the National Education Prize for the year 2025-2026, after representing the Northern District. The committee highlighted the response to students and staff in emergencies and the connection between the education system and the community
"You'd be shocked at how many teachers do this exact same thing." The post A fifth grade teacher caught a student ‘stealing’ food. It changed his classroom forever. appeared first on Upworthy.
It's a perfect demonstration of how we limit our own thinking. The post A teacher gave students a seemingly simple connect-the-dots test. Only one student got it. appeared first on Upworthy.
Scary Mommy editors share the back-to-school essentials they're actually buying in 2026, from lunchboxes and backpacks to school supplies that last.
The "Adam veAdama" network will open a new agricultural boarding school in Kibbutz Metzuba in the upcoming academic year, near the Lebanon border. Students will combine matriculation studies, preparation for the IDF, and work with local farmers.
Deputy Prime Minister Suphajee Suthumpun has ordered urgent action to ease bottlenecks facing arriving passengers at Suvarnabhumi International Airport, targeting delays at immigration, baggage collection and on public transport.
