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	Hadera, Israel
		Hadera (חדרה) is a city in the Haifa District in Israel.
		Hadera is the hometown of windsurfing champion Gal Fridman, the first Israeli to win an Olympic gold medal.
		They are spread out as 24 elementary schools and 7,933 elementary school students, and 21 high schools and 7,689 high school students.
	www.creekin.net /c4500-n90-hadera-israel.html (308 words)

	Information Center - Research
		The 2003 International Democratic Education Conference (IDEC), will be held in Troy, New York, the first IDEC in the United States in the 10-year history of the conference.
		The central themes for IDEC 2003 are to challenge the high stakes testing movement, discuss democratic schooling, and learn about the approaches taken by educational alternatives throughout the US and the world.
		Yaacov Hecht: Founder of The Democratic School of Hadera and Director of The Institute for Democratic Education, Israel
	www.smallschoolsworkshop.org /2003IDEC.HTML (326 words)

	Blue Mountain School: Understanding: FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		The contract states a willingness to abide by the Blue Mountain School Lawbook, to participate on the JC and a desire to be at school.
		Democratic schools are suitable for students who are capable of self-motivation, self-direction, self-assessment, and self-regulation.
		For democratic schools that have been in existence for many years, time has shown that the lack of grades and transcripts has been no impediment to college admissions or performance.
	www.bluemountainschool.com /understand/index.cfm?fuseaction=faq (3834 words)

	IDEC 2005 - Programme
		Booroobin School in Australia is having to stand up to a government and an environment which are equally unable to cope with the idea of legitimising a democratic school.
		The democratic school in Hadera, the oldest democratic school in Israel, is presented through interviews with parents, teachers, students and former students.
		The democratic school, which has arisen out of a critique of the normality of the mainstream school, also develops its own "normality" and its own routine.
	en.idec2005.org /program/details (3204 words)

	Jewish Standard Real school choice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		The Hadera Democratic School, which receives funding from both public and private sources, was the first of its kind in Israel.
		With its relatively large number of democratic schools, Israel is considered a groundbreaker and leader in the field internationally.
		Staff and students are treated as equals and share in school decisions, sitting on a variety of committees that range from the school parliament to a teacher-selection committee and a field-trip committee.
	www.jstandard.com /articles/340/1/Real-school-choice (541 words)

	JewishJournal.com
		The scene is the Hadera Democratic School in Israel, where students take an equal role in deciding not only how and what to study but how the school is run.
		Staff and students are treated as equals and share in school decisions, sitting on a variety of committees that range from the school parliament to a teacher selection committee and a field trip committee.
		The school’s principal, Rami Abramovich, said the students do well on the matriculation exam, but the school doesn’t keep data on how many students pass, because it doesn’t consider the matriculation exam a proper measure of whether a student has been educated well.
	www.jewishjournal.com /home/preview.php?id=15476 (1162 words)

	1998 IDEC Report
		It was supposed to be impossible to have a democratic education conference in the country of Ukraine.
		Although the Democratic School of Hadera brought seven people, their sister school, the Hope Flower School in the West Bank City of Bethlehem, was not allowed to send it's two representatives.
		Some schools were so impressed with what they saw that they went back to their communities and gathered up students to come back and participate in the conference.
	www.edrev.org /demedconinuk.html (1707 words)

	How `follow-me' schools lead the way
		Kedma is one of five schools in Israel that are documented in a new book called "The `Tikkun' Idea: Educational Entrepreneurship in Israeli Multicultural Society," by Dr. Yehuda Bar Shalom, head of the department of education at the David Yellin Teachers College in Jerusalem.
		For example, the author found that the reason a large proportion of the parents in the Neve Shalom school, especially those who are not residents of the community, send their children there is not so much because of the coexistence idea, but because of the elitist education the school promises.
		The state curriculum was totally dismantled and the school became a little university, in which the child passes, in small groups, from level to level in accordance with his personal pace.
	www.etni.org.il /news/followmeschools.htm (1468 words)

	Red Pepper archive
		Schools that enable children to take charge of their own learning are supported and encouraged in other countries.
		The Democratic School of Hadera, in Israel, having ensured that applicants understand the nature of the school, and having taken into account any siblings already on the roll, selects new pupils by lottery.
		In Israel, the Democratic School of Hadera, which has voluntary lessons and a school parliament with real power, is a state school which has been appointed to help democratise other state schools.
	www.redpepper.org.uk /natarch/xschool.html (1341 words)

	The Local Dimension in Israeli Government and Politics
		For example, kibbutzim maintain their own schools which are nominally part of the state education system but are left fairly well to their own devices.
		Residents of religious neighborhoods not only maintain their own schools in one way or another but are allowed to close off their streets to vehicular traffic on the Sabbath and holidays so as to preserve their particular religious way of life, even though there are no laws to that effect.
		In traditional or premodern political systems they are often associated with the preservation of a pre-democratic status quo whereby communities claiming to be organic in origin and character (Gemeindschaften) are given (or at least demand) an opportunity to exercise political power to preserve their internal character within the context of the modern state.
	www.jcpa.org /dje/articles3/lg-ch1.htm (12411 words)

	IDEC2003
		Sessions often consist of representatives of schools talking about their schools, with the help of displays, photographs or multi-media presentations, but other sessions may be discussions around particular topics, such as; democratic decision-making.
		Teachers at democratic schools are “on the side of the child”, to quote a famous saying of A. Neill, the founder of Summerhill.
		The children in these schools “are learning from life itself”, to quote the founders of Aventurijn School in Holland, which had to fight off attacks from the Dutch Government, which actually changed national legislation just because of this one school with a handful of children.
	www.iatefl.org.pl /tdal/n10idec.htm (1265 words)

	NEWS FROM THE COURTS
		While in school in Eritrea, she was active in a group that opposed the current regime.
		The government sent her to the Soviet Union to study Marxist ideology, and when she returned she was interrogated daily for nearly two months in an effort to convince her to embrace communism.
		She was accepted by a school in England, but could not attend because the government refused to issue her an exit visa.
	www.visalaw.com /02mar4/9mar402.html (819 words)

	Hadera school proves the democratic way is not exclusively for the wealthy - Haaretz - Israel News
		The school building still looks practically the same - a concrete structure with pale yellow railings, peeling paint on the ceilings of the classrooms, exposed electric wires, and the housing complexes of Givat Olga as a backdrop.
		The boys were called in for a talk and told that this was not the type of behavior condoned at a democratic school.
		Unlike most democratic schools, the one in Givat Olga is part of the state school system and not partially private.
	www.haaretz.com /hasen/spages/759164.html (993 words)

	KBY -- Kehilat Ra'anan
		Another school, privately run by parents seeking a quality education for their children, will be cooperating with the congregation and the Rabbi on integrating Judaism into their curriculum.
		In my hometown, Hadera, every orange grove and eucalyptus tree told a tale of survival, courage and belief of founding families in love with the land and the nascent Jewish state.
		My parents soon felt that the school system was not doing enough to secure a strong Jewish identity for their daughters.
	www.joinkby.com /raanan/index.html (1654 words)

	IDEN Members
		The KPM Approach to Children in Sri Atmananda Memorial School is based on the teacher-child relationship and valuing the child unconditionally.
		All the decisions are taken at the School Meeting that gathers students and staff every week; and the students are free to choose the courses they want to follow, even free to choose not to follow any course.
		Others and I are attempting to reason with local school districts to include democratic education in school curriculum, climate and governance.
	www.idenetwork.org /member.html (1955 words)

	The Hope Flowers Al-Amal School - Articles From the Press
		In 1995 a sister school relationship was formed with a school in Israel, the Democratic School of Hadera, on the basis of mutual visits by the staff in the spring.
		The school, located in the village of al-Khader in west Bethlehem, began 11 years ago with one kindergarten class, and has since expanded up to sixth grade with over 220 students.
		Issa claims the most difficult part of peace education for the children at Al Amal is the reconciliation between what the students learn at school and what they experience in their daily lives.
	www.mideastweb.org /hopeflowers/press.html (1101 words)

	Eritrea: 'You have no right to ask' - Government resists scrutiny on human rights - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		They published articles about the democratic reform movement, including interviews with critics who were subsequently detained, and their own opinions advocating peaceful change.
		A former military detainee, conscripted from school in 1995, described to Amnesty International how he and a group of seven other conscripts had presented a petition to officers complaining about use of soldiers for officers’ private gain.
		In August 2003, 57 school students on a summer vacation work project at Sawa army base were imprisoned in containers for possessing bibles and belonging to minority churches(22).
	web.amnesty.org /library/Index/ENGAFR640032004 (18655 words)

	Sudbury Education Resource Network: Networking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		Additionally we list schools which do not call themselves Sudbury model schools, yet have elements in common with the Sudbury model, and we also list educational organizations which support the ideas behind the Sudbury model.
		Each listing is with permission, and all information contained in the listing is supplied by the school, group or organization.
		Schools are listed in the category of their choice.
	www.sudburynetwork.org /networking.htm?maps.htm (80 words)

	We Remember Jewish Wysokie Mazowieckie!
		I was moved by this gesture and of the reborn democratic Poland.
		For a short time, there was a public high school in Wysokie Mazowieckiee and a small number of Jewish students continued their studies there after completing elementary school.
		In 1933, when the Szabasowka became a regular school, an effort was undertaken by Zionist leaders to open a Tarbut (Hebrew-language) school.
	www.zchor.org /wysokie/wysokie.htm (4258 words)

	A Jewish Perspective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		The teachers' unions provide much of the manpower in Democratic campaigns, and their membership - once heavily Jewish - increasingly shares the views of the college professorate, whose materials are seeping more and more into high school texts.
		No mainstream Democratic spokesman or candidate would follow party senior statesman Jimmy Carter in labeling Israel an apartheid state or blaming it for most of the ills of the world, but such views are prominent in the Democratic blogo-sphere, which plays an ever-more prominent role in Democratic campaigns and candidate selection.
		The Democrats' bible, The New York Times, editorialized during the Lebanon War that the Bush administration's refusal to join the Europeans in calling for an immediate cease-fire gave the lie to its professed multilateralism.
	www.jperspective.com (8796 words)

	IDEC 2005 - Speakers
		When Dartington Hall School closed in 1987 he joined two other teachers and a score of children to start Sands School, which has further developed Dartington ideas.
		Sadofsky was one of the group that founded Sudbury Valley School in Framingham, Massachusetts in 1968, and has been deeply involved in the establishment of over a dozen other schools throughout the world based on a similar educational philosophy.
		He was a founding member of International Democratic Education Conference and has helped organize and spoken at many of them, including the one at Stork Family School in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, Summerhill School in England, Tokyo Shure, in Japan, Christchurch, New Zealand, and Bhubaniswar, India.
	en.idec2005.org /speakers (1806 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		We're working with the Institute for Democratic Education in Tel Aviv, which networks Israel's 25 democratic schools and a variety of other educational projects.
		The center is "Ideas." To the left, "Growth Areas" and "Dangers." To the right, "Strength Areas" and "Opportunities." As we visit schools, meet people and discuss throughout the month, we'll return to the board with post-it notes.
		So far we've seen four democratic schools, from a young startup with 94 students to Hadera, the first democratic school in Israel and still a vibrant community of 370 children.
	www.democratic.co.il /Israel/News/IsraelResearchTrip1.shtml (449 words)

	Legal Support for Free Schools and Other Alternatives in Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		If your school is facing legal ramifications of its non-mainstream practices, first off realize that you don't need to "go it alone." You may not be as well-known as Summerhill but there are other ways to rally support.
		The International Democratic Education Conference was established in 1993 to provide a forum, meeting place, and support for democratic schools and democratic education around the world.
		The first meeting was held at the Democratic School of Hadera, in Israel, and subsequent meetings have been held in England, Austria, and Ukraine, last year at Summerhill School, in England, and this year was organized by Tokyo Shure and held in Japan.
	www.pathsoflearning.net /library/legal.cfm (3045 words)

	The School for Peace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		The Arab and Jewish students from the Iksal and Amakim schools were in their third year of a three – year program, initiated by the two schools, that runs from the ninth to eleventh grades.
		The staff of the Institute for Democracy, an extension of the Democratic School in Hadera, invited the SFP to conduct a workshop.
		One of the 13 Israeli Palestinians killed in October was a student in the Ibellin School.
	www.nswas.com /sfp/updates/sfp_activities_05_01.html (2345 words)

	Yaacov Hecht
		Founded The Democratic School in Hadera, Israel in 1987 and served as its principal until 1997.
		Initiated the first IDEC - the International Democratic Education Conference - in Israel in 1993.
		Established The Institute for Democratic Education in 1995 and has since then served as its chairman.
	www.educationrevolution.org /yaacovhecht.html (91 words)

	Israel and the occupied territories
		State subsidized ultra-Orthodox religious schools have not complied with the requirement for all state-funded schools to teach core subjects such as mathematics.
		The municipality and MOE argued it was better for the child to attend an Arab school.
		According to data released in September by the Higher Arab Follow-up Committee, the Arab student dropout rate overall was 12 percent and 70 percent at schools in the unrecognized villages in the Negev, compared with 6 percent overall in Jewish schools.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61690.htm (19519 words)

	Moriah Fund: Grants 2002
		Hadera Ethiopian Volunteer Center, for its efforts to strengthen the local leadership of Ethiopian Israelis in the town of Hadera.
		Modus School and Educational Center, which develops and disseminates an approach in education based on principles of democracy and responsibility; recommended for a teachers' training course and for a fundraising position.
		Adam Institute for Democracy and Peace's democratization program in Arab schools, including: in-service training for teachers; classroom work with students; and implementation of a democratic way of life in the school.
	www.moriahfund.org /grants/2002/israel.htm (1902 words)

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