The "Gettin' Schooled!" Edition
Allison Kaplan Sommer, Don Futterman and Noah Efron discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.
--Primary Importance?--
Netanyahu is almost sure to win next week's Likud leadership primary, and yet it still feels like maybe end of one era and the beginning of another. What's happening in the Likud?
--Dour of Pisa--
Israeli 15 year olds do third-worldishly lousy on an huge international standardized test. What accounts for the mediocrity in math, science and reading? Is Israel destined to become the "Dumbed…
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