Al Mawrid As the result of an overemphasis on rote learning, the Palestinian educational system suffers from serious deficiencies in critical thinking and problem-solving skills. In response to this problem, the Al-Mawrid Teacher Development Center in Ramallah created the Science-Technology-Society Education Project. This initiative was supported by The Jerusalem Fund to help enhance these important skills among Palestinian students. The project began in September 1998 with a group of ninth-grade science teachers who designed a teaching unit for science classrooms on the technology and history of bread making. The participants then taught the lesson in their classrooms the following semester. Said one of the teachers: "My priorities have changed. . . . I no longer believe that only content is important. . . . I assign equal importance to [teaching] critical thinking and problem-solving skills [to] my students." Recently, the bread-making lesson was published and made available to Palestinian schools. The first component in the program emphasizes the development of analytical skills using an interdisciplinary approach encompassing science, technology, agriculture, and history. This program represents an important step forward in the Palestinian educational system.