From: Center for Policy Research <cpr> Subject: Help Palestinian education   HOW TO HELP PALESTINIAN EDUCATION  (From 'Educational Network', No. 11, April 1993, publ. by Ramallah Friends Schools, P.O.Box 66,  Ramallah, West Bank, via Israel Tel. 972-2-956230,  Fax. 972-2-956231)  Many of our readers have written to us asking how  individuals and organizations can help Palestinian  education. We have compiled a list of suggestions to guide  you. If you are interested in pursuing one or more of  these suggested activities, the Educational Network can  aid you by /coordinating/ the initial contacts, /following  up/, and /providing any other support/ you may need.  1.  Link your teachers' union with a teachers' union here  --- linkage should be based on a shared pedagogical  enterprise.  2. Get your union to actively support the right of  Palestinian teachers in the Occupied Territories to form  unions:  a. through the International Labor Organization (if your  union is a member) b. contacting other international unions which have  supported our right to form a union -- we can supply  names and addresses.  3. Establish a SCHOLARSHIP FUND for one or more  Palestinian students to study at a Palestinian university  or school -- or establish a scholarship fund for a  Palestinian student or teacher to study at a university  abroad.  4. Reproduce and publish information about Palestinian  education:      a. for your union membership;     b. for the outside community.  The Educational Network can supply up-to-date  information and statistics.  5. Send delegations of teachers to visit the Occupied  Territories during periods when our schools are in  session.  The Network can arrange an itinerary, make hotel and  local travel arrangements, and provide a guide for the  visit.  6. Sponsor Palestinian teachers to visit your city for an  educational tour:        a. to see schools and speak with educators in order to           learn about progressive pedagogical ideas and            experiences;        b. to speak about the conditions of Palestinian           education.  The Network will coordinate from Palestine.  7. Establish teacher-exchange programs for one year in  which a Palestinian teacher from a private school teaches  at a public or private school abroad while a teacher from  that school spends a year in a Palestinian private school.  8. Send an experienced educator to the Occupied  Territories to give workshops (all-day workshops or two- day workshops) on innovative teaching techniques.  The Network will pay for the person's food, lodging, and  travel while in Palestine, and will serve as guide.  9. Set up a pen-pal program with a Palestinian school in  either English or French.  10. Set up a sister-school program with a Palestinian  school which would actively involve teachers as well as  students at both schools -- a great tool for building  international understanding and mutual sensitivity.  11. Keep the Educational Network informed about  important educational conferences so that we can send a  Palestinian teacher to attend.  12. Send to the Educational Network articles or other  writings or books dealing with innovative approaches and  ideas in the field of education so that we can then  disseminate the information locally.