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Poland: Polish Schools at Sixes and Sevens
WARSAW | Karolina Elbanowska, 28, is the mother of four young children. With summer on the doorstep, she’s not only planning her family’s holidays. She will spend at least some […]
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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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Uzbekistan: New Model, Old Problems
With one third of its population children under the age of 15, Uzbekistan has had little choice but to spend millions of dollars on education reforms since the mid-1990s. But […]
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South Africa: A Fateful Decision
Johannesburg | In South Africa, any discussion of education reform begins and ends with the acronym OBE. Those three letters stand for Outcome-Based Education, a system adopted by the government […]
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Russia: Winds of Change from the North
When thinking about Russia, almost every foreigner names three geographical entities: Moscow, St. Petersburg and… Siberia. Vast, snow white and bitter cold, Siberia seems to be deserted in the popular […]
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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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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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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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Russia: Electronic Registers Click with Russian Parents
ULYANOVSK, Russia | For many years, Russian schoolchildren have concealed bad grades from their parents with the help of a classic excuse: “My grade report book (i.e. report card) was […]
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