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APPENDIX
B: NUMERICAL COMPARISON OF JEWISH AND ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRAEL
Table 24:
Numerical Comparison of Jewish and Arab Education in Israel [update]
|
Jewish education
|
Arab education
|
Enrolled students
(2000-2001)
(total number) |
77.8%
(1,250,000)
|
22.2%
(356,000)
|
Allocation of teaching
hours (1999-2000)
(average weekly teaching hours/student) |
81.6%
(1.84)
|
18.4%
(1.51)
|
Schools |
|
|
Average number
of pupils/class (1998-1999) |
26
|
30
|
Average number
of children/teacher (1999-2000) |
15.5
|
18.7
|
Distribution of
classrooms (1998)
(total number) |
80.5%
(34,747)
|
19.5%
(8,423)
|
Schools with libraries
(1994-1996) |
80.7%
|
64.4%
|
Schools with educational
counseling (1994-1996) |
78.7%
|
36.2%
|
Schools with psychological
counseling (1994-1996) |
83.2%
|
40.0%
|
Schools with counseling
by a social worker (1994-1996) |
64.4%
|
53.7%
|
Schools with truant
officers (1994-1996) |
65.1%
|
53.7%
|
Teachers |
|
|
Teachers with an
academic degree (1997-1998) |
59.5%
|
39.7%
|
Teachers rated
"not qualified" |
4.1%
|
7.9%
|
Primary schools
with voluntary in-service training (1994-1995) |
87.9%
|
60.1%
|
Primary schools
with no programs to improve teaching (1994-1995) |
6.4%
|
21.5%
|
Kindergarten
(ages 3-5) |
|
|
Kindergarten attendance
(private, municipal, and state) (1998-1999)
|
89.3%
92.9%
94.0%
|
22.5%
33.5%
80.7%
|
Pupils/teaching
staff: government kindergartens (1999-2000) |
19.8
|
39.3
|
Special Education |
|
|
Distribution of
teaching hours (total) (1999-2000) |
85.9%
|
14.1%
|
Teaching hours
for integration (mainstreaming) (1998-1999) |
91.6%
|
8.4%
|
Special education
kindergartens (1998-1999) |
484 (91.5%)
|
45 (8.5%)
|
Integrated kindergartens
(1998-1999) |
61 (100%)
|
0 (0%)
|
Special education
schools (excluding kindergartens) (1998-1999) |
222 (83.5%)
|
44 (16.5%)
|
Students in primary
schools for "handicapped children" (1999-2000) |
13,165 (85.4%)
|
2,253 (14.6%)
|
Performance |
|
|
Drop-out rates
by age seventeen (1998-1999) |
10.4%
|
31.7%
|
Bagrut pass
rate among all seventeen-year-olds (1999-2000) |
45.6%
|
27.5%
|
Bagrut pass
rate among examinees |
63.0%
|
43.4%
|
Qualification rate
for university admission among all seventeen-year-olds (1999-2000) |
40.4%
|
18.4%
|
University applicants
who were rejected (1998-1999) |
16.7%
|
44.7%
|
University students
studying for first (undergraduate) degree (1998-1999) |
91.3%
|
8.7%
|
University first
degree recipients (1998-1999) |
94.3%
|
5.7%
|
Sources: Ministry
of Education, "Statistics of the Matriculation Examination (Bagrut)
2000 Report," http://www.netvision.net.il/bagrut/netunim2000.htm (accessed
on May 10, 2001), pp. 5, 7, 45; State of Israel Ministry of Justice, Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, Initial Periodic Report of the State of Israel Concerning
the Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC),
February 20, 2001, p. 307; Daphna Golan, Chair, Committee for Closing the
Gap, Pedagogical Secretariat, Ministry of Education, Closing the Gaps
in Arab Education in Israel: Data About Hebrew-Arab Education; Recommendations
of the Committee for Closing the Gap; Protocol of the Meeting of the Directorship,
December 13, 2000, December 2000, p. 3; Ministry of Education, Proposed
Budget for the Ministry of Education 2001 and Explanations as Presented
to the Fifteenth Knesset, no. 11, October 2000, pp. 144, 158; CBS,
Survey of Education and Welfare Services 1995/1996: Secondary Schools,
Hebrew and Arab Education, (Jerusalem: CBS, May 1999); CBS, Statistical
Abstract of Israel 2000, no. 51, tables 22.9, 22.10, 22.11, 22.12,
22.27, 22.28, 22.34, 22.37, 22.39; and CBS, Survey of Education and
Welfare Services 1994/1995: Primary and Intermediate Schools, Hebrew and
Arab Education, (Jerusalem: CBS, October 1997).
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