Title:

From policy to practice: applying educationalchange in Israeli schools for students at high academic risk.

Authors:

Alfassi, Miriam 1 alfasm@mail.biu.ac.il

Source:

European Journal of Special Needs Education; Jun2004, Vol. 19 Issue 2, p255, 12p

Document Type:

Article

Subject Terms:

* ACADEMIC achievement
* EDUCATIONAL change
* LEARNING
* SCHOOLS
* STUDENTS

Geographic Terms:

ISRAEL

Author-Supplied Keywords:

School engagement
Structured academic programme
Student dropout and reclaim
Students at risk

NAICS/Industry Codes:

611 Educational Services

Abstract:

This short report identifies the academic and environmental experiences that support the reclaiming of students at high academic risk and describes an applicable school-wide programme emanating from the call for educationalchange in Israel . The proposed structured academic programme demonstrates how schools can achieve broad student knowledge and set high performance standards while accommodating diverse student needs. As such, the programme provides school practitioners with intervention targets that promote school engagement and higher school performance. In addition, the report provides illustrative examples of the implemented programme within schools for students at high academic risk in Israel . It is argued that a movement towards an adaptive model of schooling as portrayed within the structured academic programme may prove to be effective in academically engaging students at academic risk, thus providing all students with democratic possibilities for learning and knowing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Author Affiliations:

1 Bar-Ilan University, Israel

ISSN:

0885-6257

Accession Number:

13133211

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Title:

Educational Reforms and Inequalities in Israel : The MMI Hypothesis Revisited.

Source:

Sociology of Education; Apr2004, Vol. 77 Issue 2, p103, 18p

Document Type:

Article

Subject Terms:

* EDUCATION, Secondary
* EDUCATIONAL change
* HYPOTHESIS
* STUDENTS
* UNIVERSITIES & colleges

Geographic Terms:

ISRAEL

NAICS/Industry Codes:

6111 Elementary and Secondary Schools
6113 Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

Abstract:

Israeli secondary school students sit for national matriculation examinations that result in their receiving either a plain or a university-qualifying diploma. During the 1990s, the Ministry of Education implemented policies that were designed to raise eligibility rates for the diploma. This article evaluates the consequences of these policies for gender, ethnic, and socioeconomic inequalities in the odds of obtaining the two forms of the diploma. The results show that the reforms reduced socioeconomic inequalities in the odds of obtaining the plain diploma but increased inequalities in the odds of obtaining the university-qualifying diploma. Overall, the results refute the prediction of Raftery and I-lout's (1993) hypothesis of maximally maintained inequality that inequalities are maintained as long as privileged groups have not reached saturation vis-a-vis an educational level. Rather, they are consistent with Lucas's (2001) claim that the differentiation of a given educational credential can substitute qualitative inequalities for quantitative ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ISSN:

0038-0407

Accession Number:

13112572

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Title:

Teachers unions and educationalreform--a comparative perspective: The cases of France and Israel .

Authors:

Gaziel, Haim H.
Taub, David

Source:

Educational Policy; Mar1992, Vol. 6 Issue 1, p72, 15p

Document Type:

Article

Subject Terms:

* EDUCATIONAL change
* TEACHERS' unions

Abstract:

Examines the impact of teachers unions in French and Israeli centralized educational systems on school reforms. Teachers unions' demand for more clout in educational policy reforms; Governments' openness toward the demands; Liberal-societal corporatism point of view.

Full Text Word Count:

5642

ISSN:

0895-9048

Accession Number:

9602230099

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