By Dr. Harry Bloom, Founder and President, Benchmarking for Good, Inc. We asked 2,013 students across ten Jewish day high schools how likely they were to recommend their school to other Jewish students. Then we asked them to rate their school on fifty-two attributes — the quality of the science curriculum, the warmth of the environment, the responsiveness of administrators, the strength of the athletics program, and forty-eight more. The purpose was not to produce a ranking.

By Dr. Harry Bloom, Founder and President, Benchmarking for Good, Inc. Ask a head of school which parents are hardest to satisfy and you will get an assortment of answers. The financial aid families. The ones who have been here since Early Childhood and have seen it all. The parents of kids with learning needs. Every school has its folk wisdom about who the difficult constituency is. We actually analyzed the issue. Drawing upon Benchmarking for Good pooled parent survey respo

By Dr. Harry Bloom, Founder and President, Benchmarking for Good, Inc. It's a new school year. Right now, everyone's intentions are positive. The budget is approved, the faculty came back energized, parents are hopeful. But by November, the seeds of the year's real challenges will have surfaced — and you'll be reacting to them instead of getting ahead of them. But there is an alternative: implement Benchmarking for Good's no-cost research suite, so you and your team have the

By Dr. Harry Bloom, Founder and President, Benchmarking for Good Ask a parent why they chose your school, and the answer you get is not what actually drives their behavior. Not because they are hiding anything. Because a survey question about school choice quietly asks a parent to perform a role — the responsible advocate for their child — and they answer from inside it. So they name the things a good parent is supposed to name: safety, academic rigor, the quality of the teac

An In-depth Study By Dr. Harry Bloom, Founder and President, Benchmarking for Good, Inc. Ask a head of school how faculty salaries get set, and you'll usually hear some version of "it depends." We wanted to know what it depends on. So we asked 23 diverse Jewish day schools — Early Childhood through Upper School — to share how they set pay and what they actually pay. Then we ran the numbers across nine research questions. The picture that emerged is highly pragmatic but one th