A distinot increase in the number of Jewish day schools and in enrollments throghout the United States was noted in a survey just completed by the Micrachi National Education Committee. Isidor Margolis, executive director of the committee–affiliated with the Mizrachi Organization of America–disclosed that the number of day schools and kindergartens in the U.S. has mounted to 142, located in 49 cities, with total enrollments having passed the 20,000 mark.
The committee, the first to advocate establishment of Hebrew kindergartens and to propagate the idea of the day school for older children and adolescents throughout the country, has, according to Mr. Margolis, “demonstrated the feasilibity of day school education in Hebrew, Jewish and secular subjects in large cities as well as in small communities.” It operates 67 day schools which are directly affiliated or cooperating regularly in its coordination program.
In addition to organizing and supervising day schools and kindergartens, the committee prepares curricula and coordinates programs of existing day schools, as well as intergrates their secular and Hebrew departments to meet rigid standards. It publishes textbooks and other educational material, conducts a placement service for educational personnel including supervisors, consultants, principals and teachers, provides in-service training in Judaism for teachers in secular as well as in Hebrew departments of the schools, and conducts regular conferences of educations on a national basis.
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