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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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Georgia: Steps and Stumbles
TBILISI, Georgia | As the last millennium drew to a close, Georgia’s once-excellent educational system, which nurtured mathematicians, doctors, philosophers, and historians in the early 20th century, was clearly on […]
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Armenia: Out With the Old
YEREVAN, Armenia | Several women sit in a lecture room in Yerevan State University’s biology department. In angry voices loud enough to be heard down the corridor, they recount their […]
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Macedonia: PC Politics
SKOPJE, Macedonia | Koco Racin is an elementary school in the small village of Petrovec, about 15 kilometers from the capital.
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Uzbekistan: Dead Letter
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan | A planned switch from a version of the Cyrillic script introduced for the Uzbek language under Joseph Stalin nearly 70 years ago to the Latin alphabet is […]
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Azerbaijan: Slow to Connect
BAKU, Azerbaijan | Outside the oil wealth and boom-town atmosphere of this Caspian Sea capital, young Azeris are struggling to keep up with an increasingly connected world. While youth in […]
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Ukraine: Butchers, Bakers, and Software Makers
LVIV, Ukraine | Once the backbone of the Ukrainian educational system, trade schools turned out steelworkers, cooks, mechanics, welders, and bus conductors to fill waiting jobs in the centralized economy. […]
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Bulgaria: Fixing a (Black) Hole
SOFIA, Bulgaria | Asen Tzonev got his first taste of Bulgarian higher education in March when he attended a lecture as part of an Internet technology course at St. Kliment […]
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Serbia: What’s it Worth to You?
BELGRADE, Serbia | In late February, the central Serbian town of Kragujevac became the butt of a popular joke: A bus traveling around the country stops at the Kragujevac station. […]
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Czech Republic: Classroom Secrets
PRAGUE, Czech Republic | Do you know what your child is going through right now among his or her classmates? Just a bit of pushing and shoving that they’ll easily […]
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