1. Background The changing demographic structure of Israel's education system has been
discussed in a number of Taub Center publications, beginning in 2009 (Horev and Kop …

Israel is at a crossroads. It has one of the lowest productivity levels and one of the highest
poverty rates in the developed world. With roughly half of its children receiving a Third World …

Israel is at a crossroads. It has one of the lowest productivity levels and the highest poverty
rates in the developed world. With roughly half of its children receiving a Third World …

International student assessments, which began in the 1970s and gained momentum after
the publication of the TIMSS 1999 scores and the PISA 2000 scores, have transformed the …

The international exams administered by Israel's education system, and the international
rankings of pupil performance on these exams, have attracted considerable attention in …

The purpose of the current study is to examine the differences in the functioning of school
staff and management in the southern district (a peripheral area) and in the central district …

It's also true that some story lines, and the facts that fit them, become so commonplace that
they are hard to dislodge by counter facts. Whenever I write a public essay claiming that our …

The purpose of this paper is to increase the awareness by outsiders of the challenges faced
education in Israel as well as to impact on the policy dialogue within Israel. The paper …

The environmental movement constitutes a remarkably successful interest group in Israel
and environmentalism is an important part of many Israelis' personal ideology. A 2011 …