Archive for 2009
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Romania: Do Not Disturb
BUCHAREST | High school junior Alexandru Marinescu likes history so much that he decided years ago to include it on his baccalaureate exams next summer. But weeks ago he learned […]
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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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Georgia: Experiment in Diversity
TBILISI | Each school day Ina Mangoshvili and her daughter Mari climb narrow Petriashvili Street to Public School No. 21.
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Russia: Will the USE be useful?
ULYANOVSK, Russia | Almost all Russian soon-to-be graduates are trembling in the expectation of the looming date of 26 May. That is the “day of reckoning”, when their grasp of […]
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Kyrgyzstan: Cold Classrooms
OSH, Kyrgyzstan | “I want to be a doctor,” declares Nafisa, an eighth-grader at School No. 105 in the suburbs of Kyrgyzstan’s second-largest city. “My friend Aziza wants to be […]
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Ukraine: Villain Today, Hero Tomorrow
DONETSK, Ukraine | Olena Yegorova wept through a winter night before her last day as a history teacher in this eastern Ukrainian city. That day in January, she gave a […]
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Liberia: Dramatic Turnaround
MONROVIA, Liberia – On any weekday morning, the streets of the capital are filled with students dressed in their colorful school uniforms, having risen early to avoid competing with other […]
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Macedonia: Giving Education the Runaround
SKOPJE, Macedonia | As Macedonia entered local and presidential election campaigns in mid-March, education was yet again among the government’s lowest priorities. Beyond generic promises to improve education infrastructure and […]
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Nepal: On the Threshold of Change
Kathmandu | This spring around 350,000 boys and girls are on the threshold of clearing what Nepalese call the “Iron Gate” – graduating from high school. That’s a 10 percent […]
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Romania: A Doctor in the Family
CLUJ-NAPOCA, Romania | Watching an older brother slowly recover from a serious car crash a few years ago, Alina Calin, then a teenager, gradually realized she wanted nothing more than […]
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