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Sri Lanka: Pressure Starts Young
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka | Shamindra Jayasinghe is a grade four student at Subharathi Junior School in Godagama, near the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo. Last year, he came home from school, […]
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Turkey: Unequal Opportunities
ISTANBUL | In today’s Turkey, if you are a young girl from a poor family with many children, and your parents have only attended primary school, there’s only about a […]
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Georgia: Class Struggle
This is the third in a series of multimedia reports on villages and urban districts in Georgia where Azeris and Armenians co-exist. You can learn more about this project and […]
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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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Serbia: On Edge
BELGRADE, Serbia | New exit exams for elementary school students, the introduction of Romani teaching assistants, an equal starting point for all children – all were big changes brought about […]
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Armenia: School Uniforms: In Good or Bad Taste?
YEREVAN | Gayane Grigoryan, a 27 year-old resident of Yerevan, wore her school uniform for only a couple of weeks at the start of the second grade. When Armenia declared […]
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Bulgaria: Under Repair
SOFIA | During this summer, repair works were intense at the Second English Language high school in Sofia, as in most Bulgarian schools during the summer holidays. However, replacing window […]
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Moldova: No Retirement in Sight
VOLOVITA, Moldova | Nadejda Cotaga, the principal of a gymnasium in the northern village of Volovita, spent the last days of the summer desperately trying to recruit recent pedagogy graduates […]
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Montenegro: Reality Check
PODGORICA | As recently as 2003, eighth graders in Montenegro were being taught about a powerful international conspiracy aimed at destroying their newly independent country and its people.
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Slovakia: The Kids of Lunik IX
Filmmakers Michelle Coomber and Dana Wilson were researching their documentary Trial of a Child Denied about the sterilization of Czech Romani women, when a contact at the Roma Press Agency […]
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