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Tongues untied
After years of delay, an effort to teach Romani in Serbian schools may be gaining steam.
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Kyrgyz migrants’ children left behind
Bubusaira Samatova’s day starts at seven in the morning when she gets her granddaughter Aysalkyn ready for school.
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Teaching history for democratic citizenship
History teaching should not be about providing answers, but about asking the right questions.
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“Access Plus Learning” The Post-2015 education agenda
The Millennium Development Goal of achieving universal primary education in developing regions has reached about 90%. However, post 2011 the progress on the goal has slowed down.
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Left behind: the rural youth in Afghanistan’s election
Despite the success of Afghanistan’s transparent, peaceful election, engagement with rural populations remained low. Failure to address the growing disaffection resulting from the urban-rural gap threatens the country’s fragile progress.
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Seldon’s proposals for school reform are fundamentally flawed
The British education system reflects long-standing social division. A recent Social Market Foundation paper proposes reforms combining variations of previous attempts with radical mercerization of state education.
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Did Socrates die in vain? Rescuing education from school
Are school children educated, socialized, or indoctrinated? If there’s any wonder remaining in a student after being swamped with established knowledge throughout the day, she or he would have to pursue critical thinking in the evenings.
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India’s ongoing effort to implement the Right to Education Act
Recent reports from India show that the country is grappling with several issues surrounding the implementation of the Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act.
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Kyrgyzstan’s schools mirror and breed social inequality
As her six-year-old daughter prepares to start school this September, Alina Bilyaletdinova says that sifting through online chat forums and scouring media reports of disgraced school principals has become “a full-time job.”
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Finnish education chief: ‘We created a school system based on equality’
Finnish education often seems paradoxical to outside observers because it appears to break a lot of the rules we take for granted. Finnish children don’t begin school until age 7.
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