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You Can’t Train People to Be Less Racist, Israeli Researchers Find

A report by Or Kashti in Haaretz several months ago stated that the Council for Higher Education had approved a new framework for training kindergarten and primary school teachers, which for the first time is to take into account education for shared existence and the prevention of racial prejudice. This is ostensibly a necessary and welcome development in a socially fragmented country like Israel, where we frequently hear about new surveys that reveal the depths of hatred and prejudice that exist between the different communities here. So, in what ways will the teachers be trained? And what are the best methods for reducing prejudice?