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Can the Post-2015 Education Framework Deliver Meaningful Change?
A special issue of the journal Current Issues in Comparative Education features case studies of critical praxis.
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Honors for an Afghani Migrant
An Afghani asylum seeker excels in Greek national University entry exams
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In Lithuania, Sex Education Remains Taboo
KLAIPEDA. Lithuania | There was no sex in the Soviet Union – or so people liked to joke in a time when propaganda to thwart “fetid capitalism” or “Western decadence” warned […]
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Azerbaijan’s Wasted Potential
BAKU | Shahin Bashirli was born six years ago with a cleft lip and palate. Several delicate surgeries have left him with a speech defect and an aggressive temperament.
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Learning Curve: Education stories from Central & Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Transitions has released a collection of some of most recent articles on education from around the region. The articles cover a wide range of topics and were written with the […]
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To the Mattresses
ZAGREB | In January, Croatian schools began teaching issues of sexuality and gender under a new health education program, but a bitter fight between the Catholic Church and the government […]
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In Lithuania, Too Many Teachers Chasing Too Few Pupils
VILNIUS | At 75, Algimantas Adomenas is still spry, agile, and exuberant. He has another reason to feel satisfied with his life: he still works, in a job he loves.
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Private Tutoring: Rising in the Shadows
While tight school budgets and teacher union complaints make the newspaper headlines in many European countries, it may be less visible that each year families across the EU spend billions […]
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In Albania, Madrasas Even the Secular Love
TIRANA | It’s the first week of the new school year and teenage boys race down corridors, shouting and laughing, on their way to the next class. In the tented […]
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Macedonia’s Cooling-Off Period
SKOPJE | Macedonia has two recent histories: one for ethnic Macedonians and another for the ethnic Albanians who make up about a quarter of the population. The two sides fought […]
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