More days in school and more hours of instruction. Yet Israeli pupils achieve less and face greater educational inequality than almost any OECD country. More crowded classrooms, while the pupil-to-teacher ratio looks normal. How could this be? How can underqualified education students and teaching candidates be expected to produce university-ready students? And why are teachers’ monthly salaries so low when their hourly wages are so high? The Shoresh Institution lays out the facts below and poses the questions that they raise to the Education Ministry, the body directly accountable for Israel’s education system.
