Post Tagged with: "Financing"

  • Liberia: Why Spelling Matters

    Liberia: Why Spelling Matters

    MANGO TOWN, Liberia | Golden and draped in red, white, and blue ribbons, the spelling trophy won by Mango Town School has become more than a source of orthographic achievement […]

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  • Bosnia: Rare Optimism on the Education Front

    Bosnia: Rare Optimism on the Education Front

    SARAJEVO | Back in 2004, Nadja Steta, a primary school teacher in the Bosnian capital was among those who taught the first generation of children enrolling in primary school under […]

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  • South Africa: A Frank Assessment

    South Africa: A Frank Assessment

    CAPE TOWN, South Africa | Zukile Mhlengana is contemplating leaving the teaching profession after spending 15 years in the classroom. He is a math and science teacher at Masibambisane High […]

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  • Bulgaria: Generation Gap

    Bulgaria: Generation Gap

    SOFIA | Asen Georgiev is a senior student  of Bulgarian philology at Sofia University, training to become a teacher  of Bulgarian language and literature.  But, like many other people his  […]

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  • Angola: A Decidedly Mixed Bag

    Angola: A Decidedly Mixed Bag

    Eighteen-year-old Johanna da Conceicao Silva is one of the lucky ones. She has received a second chance to further her education through the Adolescent Girls’ Education Project, despite the ordeal […]

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  • Romania: Village Kindergartens Struggle to Survive

    Romania: Village Kindergartens Struggle to Survive

    BRASOV, Romania | A recent renovation brought new furniture and clean, bright bathrooms to Harman village’s Kindergarten No. 1. But the daily maintenance of this four-room school for 87 children […]

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  • Georgia: Whose Facts?

    Georgia: Whose Facts?

    NINOTSMINDA, Georgia | For the second year in a row, teachers in an Armenian school in Ninotsminda, a town just inside the Georgian border, have faced the school year with […]

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  • Kyrgyzstan: A Corrupted Future

    Kyrgyzstan: A Corrupted Future

    OSH | “A friend of mine has been working in Russia for the last two years,” says Rustam Saidov, a third-year student from a university based in Osh. “Every six […]

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  • Georgia: Student-Centered Approach

    Georgia: Student-Centered Approach

    TBILISI, Georgia | Ketevan Nijaradze, mother of 12-year-old Levani, was shocked to find him at the computer one day after school, absorbed in his research for a class project. Levani, […]

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  • A Mongolian student tries out an OLPC laptop. Photo by Carla Gomez.

    Mongolia: Out in the Cold

    ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia | Built in the 1960s, the primary school in the Ikh-Uul soum (rural district) featured shoddy construction to begin with. Now years later, the building is extremely slanted […]

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