For second straight year, Druze town has top matriculation rate

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3. How Israel reduced dropout rates among Druze teens

Source: ISRAEL21c, JANUARY 24, 2016
The matriculation rate across Israel’s Druze sector rose from 52% to 73% since Yeholot introduced an accelerated learning program for underachievers.

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Freshmen identified at risk of dropping out after failing an average of seven subjects are placed in an accelerated three-year Yeholot program geared to earning a full matriculation certificate at the end of 12th grade. Older students who failed or are expected to fail the matriculation exam in up to three subjects enter a one-year accelerated learning program to enable them to pass the exams.

“A combination of these two steps has increased the matriculation rate in the Druze high school in Beit Jann from 70 percent to 100%, and in Peki’in from 60% to 93%,” Cohen tells ISRAEL21c. “The matriculation rate across the entire Druze sector went up from 52% to 73% since we began the program.”

This achievement required nothing less than a conceptual transformation of education, says Cohen, whose trainers work closely with administrators, teachers and Education Ministry officials in the Druze sector.

Read more: http://www.israel21c.org/how-israel-reduced-dropout-rates-among-druze-teens/