Society & Education

  • Georgia: One History for All

    Georgia: One History for All

    Эта статью также можно прочитать в русском переводе TBILISI, Georgia | Back in 2005 the Georgian Ministry of Education decided to introduce new history textbooks for two minority communities, the […]

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  • Kyrgyzstan: Growing a Kindergarten

    Kyrgyzstan: Growing a Kindergarten

    BATKEN, Kyrgyzstan | Five-year-old Yrysbek has been going to the Liliya community kindergarten in Boz-Adyr village for the past several months. “We play here, watch TV and teachers tells stories. […]

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  • Kazakhstan: Short on Funds, Not Ambition

    Kazakhstan: Short on Funds, Not Ambition

    ALMATY, Kazakhstan | With its booming oil industry, Kazakhstan, unlike many of its Central Asian neighbors, can certainly afford to invest in education. Yet, recent increases in its education budget […]

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  • CyberChaikhana Sample Chapter

    CyberChaikhana Sample Chapter

      CyberChaikhana: Digital Conversations from Central Asia, a book compiling the best posts from the neweurasia network, has released a sample chapter on education in Central Asia, “Got Spellcheck, Will Work for Food.”

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  • Turkmenistan: Doors Opening, Doors Slamming

    Turkmenistan: Doors Opening, Doors Slamming

    Much was made of this year’s secondary school graduating class in Turkmenistan, in both local and international media. This was due to the fact that no students graduated from Turkmen […]

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  • Serbia: The Slow Pace of Change

    Serbia: The Slow Pace of Change

    BELGRADE, Serbia | During the 1990s, Srbijanka Turajlic was one of the Serbia’s fiercest opponents of Slobodan Milosevic and an organizer of numerous student protests. After the ultranationalist president was […]

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  • Macedonia: Learn to Forget

    Macedonia: Learn to Forget

    SKOPJE, Macedonia | Ivana’s homework has a familiar refrain: she memorizes lessons from physics, chemistry, math, and history classes. She does this until her head aches, she complains, “and that’s […]

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  • Romania: One More Chance

    Romania: One More Chance

    CLUJ-NAPOCA, Romania | It is 11:10 on a Thursday morning when a slightly unusual science class, the last of the day, begins at Nicolae Iorga School in the Iris industrial […]

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  • Kazakhstan: Not a Golden Ticket

    Kazakhstan: Not a Golden Ticket

    ASTANA, Kazakhstan | Kazakhstan’s National Science Fund recently rejected a job applicant because he was just too cocky.

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  • Montenegro: Getting its Story Straight

    Montenegro: Getting its Story Straight

    PODGORICA | Predrag Raznatovic quickly reads aloud through the part of the history book that states thousands of Montenegrins were killed by Serbs in 1918. He doesn’t believe what he […]

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