Balkans
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Readers are Leaders
Literacy and Math for Intellectual Growth of Early Grade Students in Macedonia
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A First in History
“The pupil who demolishes prejudices through knowledge,” one headline read about the Roma boy with all A’s on his diploma.
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Serbia’s Bosniaks Rediscover Their Roots
NOVI PAZAR | In late February, high school student Ajla Bugaric took the stage in this city of roughly 100,000 to recite “Why Venice Is Sinking,” the poet Abdulah Sidran’s […]
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Fits and Starts
MEDJIMURJE COUNTY, Croatia | Three years after a landmark court ruling jump-started school integration in Croatia, one of the successful plaintiffs, now a young man, says Roma are doing better […]
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Serbia: Empowering Parental Participation in Education Continues
The Open Society Foundation Serbia launched the initiative `The Parents Have a Say Too` in 2010 in partnership with the Open Society Education Support Program, the Center for Interactive Pedagogy (CIP) […]
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In Macedonia, Dividends on Efforts to Keep Roma in School
SKOPJE | Ramush Muarem, a prominent Romani journalist in Macedonia, remembers the resistance civil society activists encountered from Roma when, in the mid-1990s, they began trying to raise awareness of […]
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Ethnic Studies
BUJANOVAC, Serbia | Shpresa thought “very, very hard” about emigrating to the West, even of claiming asylum in Switzerland or Germany, where some of her family and friends live.
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To the Mattresses
ZAGREB | In January, Croatian schools began teaching issues of sexuality and gender under a new health education program, but a bitter fight between the Catholic Church and the government […]
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Private Tutoring: Rising in the Shadows
While tight school budgets and teacher union complaints make the newspaper headlines in many European countries, it may be less visible that each year families across the EU spend billions […]
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Speaking Their Language
PODGORICA | Montenegro’s newest effort to keep Roma children in school is happening far from the classroom – and often involves neither student nor teacher.
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