@article{445520154cb94c5e8ca2d6135e36787e,
title = "English as a gatekeeper: Inequality between Jews and Arabs in access to higher education in Israel",
abstract = "Access to the universities and many colleges in Israel is conditioned on the attainment of a specific matriculation certificate that includes a passing grade in advanced level English. Arab students in Israel are required to study English in addition to Arabic and Hebrew, unlike Jewish students, who are not obliged to take a second foreign language in addition to English. This puts Arab students in an inferior position. An analysis of a large sample of high school graduates showed that the English requirement incurs larger gaps than two other subjects that were examined: history and math. Logistic regression models confirmed that the gaps in meeting the English requirement can help explain the Jewish-Arab discrepancy in enrollment in higher education.",
keywords = "Arabs, Higher education, Inequality, Israel, Jews",
author = "Yariv Feniger and Hanna Ayalon",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 Elsevier Ltd.",
year = "2015",
month = jan,
day = "17",
doi = "10.1016/j.ijer.2015.04.003",
language = "אנגלית",
volume = "76",
pages = "104--111",
journal = "International Journal of Educational Research",
issn = "0883-0355",
publisher = "Elsevier BV",
}