Observers and even education officials agree that the quality of the Kyrgyz educational system has continued to decline.

With the help of substantial foreign aid, Uzbekistan has poured cash into its education sector in recent years, but challenges persist.

Despite massive increases in funding, Mongolia still lacks the infrastructure and resources needed to educate its growing student body.

With language barriers and little investment, the only school serving Kyrgyzstan’s Lyuli reflects the tiny community’s limited opportunities.

Prosperity fed progress in Kazakhstan’s educational system. Now hard times must spur flexibility.

As tensions rise over the place of Islam in public life, the authorities scrutinize Kyrgyz madrasas.

Elderly people helped start a preschool in a Kyrgyz village where most adults are working abroad.

Recent increases in state spending on education are not translating into higher standards in the classroom.

CyberChaikhana: Digital Conversations from Central Asia, a book compiling the best posts from the neweurasia network, has released a sample chapter on education in Central Asia, “Got Spellcheck, Will Work for Food.”

Russian still dominates higher education but is slowly disappearing from Kyrgyz schoolrooms.