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Study: Israeli education improving
Taub Center survey debunks common belief, claims student performance on rise in past decade
A new study shows Israeli education has improved rather than worsened – as many are wont to believe – over the past ten years.
The Taub Center for policy analysis surveyed Israeli standard exams – such as the Meitzav – as well as international exams such as the PISA, and is now claiming that student performance has improved over the past decade.
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Nachum Blass, who led the survey, claims that the reason Israeli students' achievements appear so dismal is that more and more countries are being tested internationally. These countries apparently outperform Israel despite a rise in scholastic achievement in the Jewish state.
For example, in 2000 Israel was ranked 25th in the world in the PISA exams, but in 2009 its placement did not improve, despite an increase of 14 points.
Blass is encouraged, claiming that "in the social reality of enlargement of economic gaps, continuous security stress, smashing of solidarity, and the deterioration of studying capacity, the fact that the education system's achievements have not worsened can appear as real success."
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