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Druze education success story threatened by Israel’s political crisis

Israeli Druze high-schoolers have excelled in matriculation exams since 2013. What’s their secret?
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Four of the 10 local or regional authorities with the highest percentage of students passing the high school matriculation exam are Druze municipalities. In all of them, the percentage of students qualifying is greater than 90%, with Peqiin at the top of all districts in Israel, even the wealthiest, with 98.7% of students passing the exam. Hurfesh is fourth, with 98.7% qualifying.

In all, there are only about 20 municipalities of the Druze religious minority in Israel, whose students are only 2% of all Israeli students. Most of these towns are at a low socio-economic level, no different from the neighboring Muslim and Christian Arab towns, but they succeed in reaching high academic attainment. The average of Druze students qualifying for matriculation is 80%, compared to a national average of a little less than 70%.

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