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Education Ministry plans Arabic pilot program for fifth graders
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe Education Ministry is looking at the possibility of introducing spoken Arabic lessons for students in the fifth grade.
The new scheme will be piloted in a handful of locations at the start of the next school year, before being expanded to every school in Israel, Walla reports.
At present, Arabic literature is only taught from 10th grade and while compulsory on paper, teaching of the subject not enforced by the ministry. Previous attempts to introduce spoken Arabic for fifth graders proved successful only in areas of Haifa and northern Israel, the report says.
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