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Shalhevet High School is a co-educational, college-preparatory, Modern Orthodox Jewish high school in Los Angeles, California. It is the only Modern Orthodox, co-educational Jewish day school in California. Boys and girls follow the same Judaic curriculum, including Talmud, in mixed classes, which is unusual for Orthodox Jewish high schools, and a full program of visual arts, music, drama, and athletics is offered in addition to the dual curriculum of secular and Judaic studies. Co-founded in 1992 by Jerry Friedman, Ed. D., and Steve Bailey, Ph.D., the school's founding headmaster, Shalhevet developed a modified version of the Kohlberg-Gilligan "Just Community" template, which he hoped would become a national model for progressive education in an Orthodox Jewish setting. A fundamental principle is that moral development can be taught through the presentation of "moral dilemmas", which create in students cognitive dissonance that leads to moral growth; another is that a limited school democracy makes students stakeholders in the values the institution seeks to promote. Shalhevet has about 223 students in grades 9 -12 as of 2014-15 and is led by Head of School Rabbi Ari Segal, formerly of the Robert M. Beren Academy of Houston, Texas and a graduate of Yeshiva University and the Goizueta School of Business at Emory University. The school's principal is Noam Weissman, another YU graduate and co-recipient, with Shalhevet teacher Rabbi David Stein, of the 2013 Mayberg Family Foundation grant 〔Mayberg Family Foundation grant〕 for their original Judaic Studies curriculum. Other headmasters were Nathan O. Reynolds, who had served as General Studies principal on two previous occasions;and Rabbi Elchanan Weinbach, whose tenure lasted just two years following Dr. Friedman's retirement in spring 2008. Mr. Roy Danovich is currently principal of General Studies. A less successful lower school that had opened in 2000 was closed at the end of the 2009-10 school year because it was draining resources from the high school. Rabbi Segal became headmaster in August 2011. Twenty-three years old as of 2014-15, Shalhevet is unique because of its somewhat democratic nature and its emphasis on moral development, guided by Jewish values. The high school holds an hour-long, weekly, student-led Town Hall at which current events, school issues and other controversies are discussed. These meetings occasionally have outside speakers, such as U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), and have ranged over topics from Darfur and Tookie Williams to Kanye West's controversial music videos. Most discussions concern school-related issues, however, such as dress code, grade and exam policies, and student elections. A school constitution empowers an Agenda Committee, which sets the Town Hall agenda, manages elections, and oversees the other committees; a Student Activities Committee, responsible for pep rallies, movie nights and other social events; and a Fairness Committee, which adjudicates issues of fairness among the students and faculty. All committees have student, faculty and administrative representation. In recent years the school has added a council-style Advisory system called Ma'agal Hakshava ("listening circle," in Hebrew), run by Dean of Students Roy Danovitch. ==Debate== Shalhevet's debate teams, formerly led by Mr. Christopher Buckley, have won many awards in Model Congress and Model UN events around the U.S., including awards as the best delegation at Penn Model Congress (2009–2010) and second best delegation at Princeton Model Congress. In February 2013, senior Daniel Schwartz became the first observant Jew elected president of Penn Model Congress. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shalhevet High School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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