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Educators may be unprepared to brief students on current events

By Haaretz Staff and Channel 10

Haaretz.com/Channel 10 daily feature for September 29, 2007.

To ensure high school students are up to date, the Education Ministry decided to add current events classes to the curriculum.

But

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when questioned on current events themselves, many teachers appeared unqualified to teach such classes


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1.	Educators may not be prepared to brief students on current events	11:55	\|	Carolyn	30/09/07

2.	There is an obvious suspicion that ...	12:38	\|	Vladimir	30/09/07

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