eJewishPhilanthropy Features Jewish After School as a “Winning Paradigm”
What separates a great Jewish education story from a model that can actually change things for communities across the country? That's the question Moneyball Judaism author Rabbi Joshua Rabin tackles in a recent piece for eJewishPhilanthropy, and his answer points directly to the work happening through the Jewish After School Accelerator.
In "Where the Sparks Still Fly: The Future of Jewish Supplementary Education," Rabin draws on economist John List's framework of voltage; the set of qualities that determine whether an innovative idea has genuine potential to scale or whether it will remain a compelling but unreplicable outlier.
After attending the JASA finalist conference in Atlanta last August, Rabin walked through each of List's five "vital signs" — from whether the original model is a false positive, to whether the approach depends on ingredients that can't travel — and found that the Jewish after school model clears every bar.
The piece is a thoughtful and substantive read for anyone invested in the future of Jewish education.