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

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

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.

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

Kyrgyz students languish in the gap between good intentions and tangible improvements.

The strong-arm behavior that increasingly taints Kyrgyz society no longer stops at the schoolhouse door.

Social science degrees are increasingly popular in Kyrgyzstan, but some experts wonder if that trend means vocational and agricultural training programs are getting short shrift.