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Education Politics & Policy
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A lesson in propaganda?
Lithuania’s Russian-language schools are under a microscope after students attend a boot camp for kids from ex-Soviet republics.
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History educators finalize a new multi-perspective teaching resource on sensitive and controversial history in the Western Balkans 1900-1945
The latest EUROCLIO collaborative educational publication “Once Upon A Time … We Lived Together: Joint Work in a Multi-perspective Approach” is now available in 8 languages, for free in full, […]
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Warsaw’s schools under the restitution ax
They survived war, communism, and transition, but a new threat looms.
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Estonian television raises red flags over Russia-sponsored youth camp
Ethnic Russian teenagers from Estonia are being militarized at youth camps organized in conjunction with Russian federal agencies, according to Estonian public broadcaster ERR.
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Russia: Looking at history as a continuation of politics
The leading Bolshevik historian Mikhail Pokrovsky famously defined history as “politics projected into the past.” Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, is taking that concept, and running with it.
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Moldova campaign urges parents to stop bribing schools’ staff
Moldova campaign urges parents to stop bribing schools’ staff
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“El Plan Maestro” & teacher education
During my recent visit to Chile, the deep and growing interest in issues of education was obvious as photographers and journalists crowded to document what was largely an academic gathering to discuss issues of teacher education.
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The children of Augusta
Two abandoned schools in a Sicilian port town raise uncomfortable truths around how Europe is treating its ‘native’ and ‘migrant’ children.
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Pakistan warns universities not to question government following model UN controversy over Israeli booth
Uproar over a booth showcasing Israeli culture as part of a university Model United Nations event in Pakistan has prompted the country’s higher education authority to warn universities not to challenge “the perspective of the government.”
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In Georgia’s schools, a little privatization on the side
The widespread use of private tutors feeds inequality and possibly corruption. Third in an occasional series.
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