Policy Paper 130 | Adapting Israel’s Education System for the Challenges of the 21 st Century iv decades between 1994 and 2014 alone . Yet despite these efforts, Israel’s education system is still struggling to adapt itself to contemporary needs . This struggle is evident in the large gap between the reforms’ declared goals and targets and what has actually happened in school classrooms . The findings of PISA and PIAAC testing also reflect a low level of academic achievement in the Israeli education system relative to education systems in many other countries, particularly among vulnerable populations— students from these groups do not seem to acquire core competencies . Even if it is true that too much importance is attributed to these tests, their results cannot be ignored . Barr ie r s to Adapti ng the Educ at ion Syst em to the 21 st Ce nt ur y a nd to Future Ch allen ges In order to promote effective reform of the education system we first need to examine the barriers that might p...
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