Archive for June, 2009
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Poland: Polish Schools at Sixes and Sevens
WARSAW | Karolina Elbanowska, 28, is the mother of four young children. With summer on the doorstep, she’s not only planning her family’s holidays. She will spend at least some […]
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Georgia: Student-Centered Approach
TBILISI, Georgia | Ketevan Nijaradze, mother of 12-year-old Levani, was shocked to find him at the computer one day after school, absorbed in his research for a class project. Levani, […]
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Uzbekistan: New Model, Old Problems
With one third of its population children under the age of 15, Uzbekistan has had little choice but to spend millions of dollars on education reforms since the mid-1990s. But […]
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South Africa: A Fateful Decision
Johannesburg | In South Africa, any discussion of education reform begins and ends with the acronym OBE. Those three letters stand for Outcome-Based Education, a system adopted by the government […]
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Russia: Winds of Change from the North
When thinking about Russia, almost every foreigner names three geographical entities: Moscow, St. Petersburg and… Siberia. Vast, snow white and bitter cold, Siberia seems to be deserted in the popular […]
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