This book addresses a fundamental social problem arising from the massive and ongoing expansion of educational systems in the modern world. Educational expansion invariably involves the diversification of student populations, especially in terms of the distribution of ability and talent. Inclusion of a wider range of students in educational systems poses a major social dilemma: how can societies effectively provide equal educational opportunities for increasingly heterogeneous student populations while, at the same time, encouraging individual achievements based on the principal of equality? This book analyzes the strategies used by various educational systems and institutions, in order to cope with the equity-equality question in a comparative perspective concentrating on the Israeli case.
