Eastern Europe
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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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Ukraine: Villain Today, Hero Tomorrow
DONETSK, Ukraine | Olena Yegorova wept through a winter night before her last day as a history teacher in this eastern Ukrainian city. That day in January, she gave a […]
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Russia: Two Times Two Makes One
ULYANOVSK, Russia | While Moscow leads the way in almost every field of activity – politics, economics, cultural affairs and education – the regions seem to trail behind. But maybe […]
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Ukraine: Running in Place
KYIV, Ukraine | Fourteen-year-old Sergey Gusev recently skipped class to play online games in an Internet cafe. His parents, who thought he was in school, believe that their son is […]
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Russia: Electronic Registers Click with Russian Parents
ULYANOVSK, Russia | For many years, Russian schoolchildren have concealed bad grades from their parents with the help of a classic excuse: “My grade report book (i.e. report card) was […]
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Belarus: Payback Time
In July 2008, while visiting local authorities in the Kamianiec region, President of Belarus Alyaksandr Lukashenka alarmed many soon-to-be graduates when he remarked on the lack of qualified doctors and […]
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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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Russia: A Terrible Thing to Waste
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia | It was an amicable-seeming offer that the academic felt was impossible to resist. So the rector of a state-funded technical university in St. Petersburg, who also […]
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Moldova: Diplomas for Sale
CHISINAU, Moldova | Ion speaks with quiet resignation about the corruption in the Moldovan school system. Ion recently graduated from a lyceum in northern Moldova and paid 450 Moldovan leu […]
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Moldova: Prioritizing Progress
CHISINAU, Moldova | Progressive education has reached even the remotest of villages in the former Soviet republic of Moldova.
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