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Turkey: A Revolution Long in the Making
ISTANBUL, Turkey – At first glance, the Capa primary school in central Istanbul looks like any typical state school. But, beyond appearances, its teachers and students are in the vanguard […]
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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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Kyrgyzstan: Growing a Kindergarten
BATKEN, Kyrgyzstan | Five-year-old Yrysbek has been going to the Liliya community kindergarten in Boz-Adyr village for the past several months. “We play here, watch TV and teachers tells stories. […]
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Kosovo: Blind Children to Attend Regular Schools
PEC, Kosovo | Metë Thaçi, a resident of the village of Malisheva, cannot see clearly. He is not completely blind but his vision is impaired, having inherited an ocular disease […]
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Kosovo: No Playground Politics
PEC, Kosovo | The children of Brestovik, of both Serbian and Albanian ethnicity, spent most of their summer days playing together in the village schoolyard, even if they would be […]
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Russia: New Approaches for a New Generation
KRASNODAR, Russia | Teachers of the humanities and social sciences often find it hard to compete with the information available to their adolescent students in this fast-paced digital age. Furthermore, […]
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Bosnia and Herzegovina: Two Schools Under One Roof
Sarajevo, BOSNIA and HERZEGOVINA | In early March 2008, the town council of Capljina, a Croat-majority town in the country’s south, announced that all Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) and Bosnian Serb […]
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Uzbekistan: Do You Speak Russian?
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan | I had a misunderstanding over an Internet card I was trying to buy from a young merchant in one of Tashkent’s stores not far from the Russian […]
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Montenegro: Getting its Story Straight
PODGORICA | Predrag Raznatovic quickly reads aloud through the part of the history book that states thousands of Montenegrins were killed by Serbs in 1918. He doesn’t believe what he […]
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