Discrimination in Education Against the Arabs in Israel (ص 14)
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- Discrimination in Education Against the Arabs in Israel (ص 14)
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(a) Whereas Arab girls, aged 5 to 14 years,
constitute 13.8 percent of all girls of that age-
group, Arab girl-pupils at state-run primary
schools constitute only 8.6 percent of all girl-
pupils at those schools.
(b) Of Arab girls of compulsory education
age, only 49.06 percent actually attend state-run
primary schools ; but, of Jewish girls of the same
age-group, 83.24 percent attend those schools.
7. Thus far, our analysis has been confined to pri-
mary education (mainly in the state-run system), and
our attention has been focused on the degree to which
the State has discharged, with respect to Arabs and Jews,
its dual responsibility : (a) to ensure compliance with the
provisions of the Compulsory Education Law, and (b) to
provide such educational opportunities as would make
compliance with the Law possible.
The figures and percentages cited in the preceding
paragraphs show that Arab children in general, and Arab
girls in particular, have enjoyed less than equal access to
educational opportunities, in comparison with Jewish
children, at the primary education level.
This inequality is much more marked, however, at
other levels of education, which are not covered by the
Compulsory Education Law. In the following chapter,
therefore, we shall examine the available comparative in- - تاريخ
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