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Professionals warn about the Education Ministry's solutions: "it doesn't treat the root"
WallaAmid rocket fire in the south, educators and experts question the responses offered to students.
Quotes by Chen Bareket
Selected excerpts from the interview.
That's exactly the problem. We look at the grades when the child is already in advanced stages of the education system, but the gap is built much earlier. When a strong language foundation isn't built among children, it's no wonder they later encounter difficulties and show low grades.
Anyone who wants to change the grades needs to start investing in children at an early age. Gaps are not born in the test; they are only revealed in it.
Low grades can be a symptom of a gap created years earlier. Our systemic approach starts by redefining the root problem and only then selecting the right tool or technology.