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Moldova: No Retirement in Sight
VOLOVITA, Moldova | Nadejda Cotaga, the principal of a gymnasium in the northern village of Volovita, spent the last days of the summer desperately trying to recruit recent pedagogy graduates […]
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Russia: Student Government with a Capital G
At only twenty, Dmitri Miroshnikov, a student of the Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology, has a hands-on role in the Moscow city administration, and has numerous official meetings and visits […]
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Kosovo: Worth the Paper It’s Printed On?
PRISTINA | Last month, from one day to the next, thousands of students in Kosovo learned that they would not be receiving the university degree that they thought they had […]
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Romania: Testing Times for Students
BUCHAREST | Since last September, 14-year-old Andreea Balan has been diligently preparing for the six standardized exams – three per semester – that will largely determine her academic future. Her […]
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Russia: Will the USE be useful?
ULYANOVSK, Russia | Almost all Russian soon-to-be graduates are trembling in the expectation of the looming date of 26 May. That is the “day of reckoning”, when their grasp of […]
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Liberia: Dramatic Turnaround
MONROVIA, Liberia – On any weekday morning, the streets of the capital are filled with students dressed in their colorful school uniforms, having risen early to avoid competing with other […]
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Bulgaria: Education on Strike, Education at Stake
SOFIA, Bulgaria | Many high school students were in the front lines of the January protests in Sofia, when a peaceful rally against government corruption and the slow pace of […]
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Romania: Rural Idyll
Эта статью также можно прочитать в русском переводе All 160 or so fifth- to eighth-graders at the school are Roma, yet none lives in the village. As Romani parents from […]
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Romania: Children Learn to Recycle Paper by Making It
BUCHAREST, Romania | On the first floor of the Romanian Peasant Museum in Bucharest, in the recently opened Cărtureşti library, lies the “Paper Book.” The book is small, with irregular […]
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Hungary: Hard Cases
BUDAPEST, Hungary | It’s hard to say whether the two young men near the entrance to the Belvarosi Tanoda high school are teachers or students. Wearing shorts and T-shirts, they […]
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