Romania’s rural schools are suffering from underfunding, neglect, and the government’s budget priorities.

Education officials question the quality of education in Romania’s largest private university, jeopardizing the diplomas of more than 100,000 students and recent graduates.

Low teacher salaries and students’ low trust in teachers are two intertwined problems decreasing the quality of Bulgarian education, experts say.

In the classroom, the strong hand of the state has given way to the mixed blessings of freedom. A TOL special report.

Another round of disruptive changes to Romania’s education system has left students in the lurch.

Slideshow: A documentary project shines a light on a successful preschool in Central Europe’s biggest Roma ghetto.

Polish parents decry the government’s move to make six-year-olds attend school with older kids.

Bucharest takes a whack at the high school schedule and hits a hornet’s nest instead.

A scholarship program gives ambitious Romani students a chance to join the healing profession.

Massive teachers’ strikes in the fall of 2007 forced the government to hasten reforms, but stopped short of fixing the Bulgarian education system.