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Israel operates an Arab education system for the Israeli-Arab minority, teaching Arab students, in Arabic, about their history and culture. Israel is a signatory of the Convention against Discrimination in Education , and ratified it in 1961.
The best unambiguous evidence for schools in ancient Israel comes from a few abecedaries and accounting practice texts found at sites such as Izbet Sarta, Tel Zayit, Kadesh Barnea, and Kuntillet ʿAjrud. [1] However, these were probably not schools in the traditional sense but rather an apprenticeship system located in the family. [1]
The Streams Method in the Israeli education refers to the division of education in Israel into ideological and party-based streams. [1] This method was practiced in the Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel and later among the Jewish public in the State of Israel from the beginning of modern education (in the 1920s) until the enactment of the State Education Law on August 12, 1953. [2]
The Independent Education System of Israel (Hebrew: החינוך העצמאי - which is translated "independent education", and could be transliterated as Khinukh Atsmai or Chinuch Atzmai) is an alternate school system run by, and serving the needs of, the Haredi Jewish (ultra-Orthodox Jewish) community of Israel.
In Israel, Jewish and Arab citizens lead largely separate lives, lacking meaningful opportunities to get to know one another, and overcome social and cultural barriers. This separation is particularly obvious in the K-12 public education system, which separates students into Arab and Jewish (secular, religious, and Orthodox) tracks. Although ...
Many kibbutzim also went through a process of privatization, and higher education became prevalent, together with a decrease in the prominence of agriculture. [12] Ora Aviezer explains: [13] Collective education can be regarded as a failure. The family as the basic social unit has not been abolished in kibbutzim.
The Israeli education system rarely employs curved grading at any stage (including at the academic level). To compensate for this, most academic institutions require that candidates undergo the Psychometric Entrance Test , which in Israel provides examinees with an overall score of 200–800, the average being 535.
65.5% of Israeli high school 2014 graduates, or other individuals studying for the 2014 exam (usually post-compulsory military service persons completing Bagrut requirements later in life in order to apply for higher education) had passed the requirements to be eligible to receive a Bagrut certificate. Of the overall population who was of high ...