Toward a History of the Curriculum of the Conservative Congregational School

Abstract

The Recent Publication of A Curriculum for the Afternoon Jewish School 1 brings to three the number of comprehensive curricular statements produced by the United Synagogue of America. The first, A Curriculum for Jewish Religious School,3 was published in stages: the ma-Curriculum Outline for the Congregational School 3 was published in stages: the material for the primary and elementary school appeared in 1948 followed three years later by the program for the junior high school and a complete revised edition became available in 1959. Taken together these documents provide us with a record of over half a century of educational thought in the Conservative movement. As such they are valuable sources for the history of the curriculum of the Jewish school in America.