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Teachers continue strike over Serbian austerity measures
Serbian teachers intensified protests over job and wage cuts 22 December as parliament began talks on a 2015 draft budget that would further slash the public-sector workforce.
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Russia protests school searches in Lithuania
The Kremlin is expressing ire over recent police raids at Russian-language schools in Lithuania whose students attended a controversial post-Soviet youth camp this summer, TASS reports.
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Ukrainian universities in exile fight for survival
Hundreds of miles from their former home, staff and students of Ukraine’s Donetsk National University are making do without salaries, accommodations, or proper buildings, the Kyiv Post reports.
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Moldova campaign urges parents to stop bribing schools’ staff
Moldova campaign urges parents to stop bribing schools’ staff
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“El Plan Maestro” & teacher education
During my recent visit to Chile, the deep and growing interest in issues of education was obvious as photographers and journalists crowded to document what was largely an academic gathering to discuss issues of teacher education.
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Kyrgyzstani lawmakers demand action on underpaid teachers
Kyrgyzstan is facing a shortage of teachers, as fewer graduates are willing to endure rock-bottom pay and poor teaching conditions, EurasiaNet.org reports.
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In Georgia’s schools, a little privatization on the side
The widespread use of private tutors feeds inequality and possibly corruption. Third in an occasional series.
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Georgia: grappling with teacher troubles
In 1960, the Georgian poet Ioseb Noneshvili lauded teachers as role models and pillars of society who were endowed with the “light of knowledge.”
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Badass teachers and the future of American democracy
Education should be a transformative experience. Instead, it’s being converted into a commodity that can be quantified, bought and sold.
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Azerbaijan: kids start school with lengthy family-motorcades, cops complain
What parent would not want to make their child’s first day of school memorable?
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