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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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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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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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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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Bulgaria: Education on Strike, Education at Stake
SOFIA, Bulgaria | Many high school students were in the front lines of the January protests in Sofia, when a peaceful rally against government corruption and the slow pace of […]
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Russia: New Approaches for a New Generation
KRASNODAR, Russia | Teachers of the humanities and social sciences often find it hard to compete with the information available to their adolescent students in this fast-paced digital age. Furthermore, […]
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Kosovo: You Get What You Pay For
PRISTINA, Kosovo | Besim Gashi sits in a classroom of the Skenderbeu school, in a village in western Kosovo. Behind him, a tattered journal hangs in the corner, chronicling the […]
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Hungary: Hard Cases
BUDAPEST, Hungary | It’s hard to say whether the two young men near the entrance to the Belvarosi Tanoda high school are teachers or students. Wearing shorts and T-shirts, they […]
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