Georgia
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In Georgia’s schools, a little privatization on the side
The widespread use of private tutors feeds inequality and possibly corruption. Third in an occasional series.
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Georgia: grappling with teacher troubles
In 1960, the Georgian poet Ioseb Noneshvili lauded teachers as role models and pillars of society who were endowed with the “light of knowledge.”
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Georgia: education gap has alarming economic ramifications
When Rusudan, a 47-year-old woman from Georgia’s western city of Zugdidi, decided to move her son from a public school to a private school seven years ago, it was not a light-hearted decision.
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In Georgia, outcry over desecration of Muslim school
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has condemned the nailing of a pig’s head to the door of a planned Islamic school.
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Back to Class
Georgia prepares to launch a bigger and, activists hope, better inclusive education scheme.
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Testing the Teachers
Are Georgia’s educators really as bad as their shockingly high exam-failure rate suggests?
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Experiencing Inclusion in the Caucasus
Impressions from a summer camp in the Caucasus Ureki – this word will remind 60 children and young people from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and the three North Caucasian republics of […]
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Georgia’s Free, Albeit Non-Existent, Preschools
TBILISI | Every day Natia Chanukvadze walks her son, 4-year-old Kakhi, the 15 minutes from their Tbilisi apartment to his public preschool. To hear Chanukvadze talk, Kakhi’s experience is a […]
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Out in the Street
TBILISI | In 2004, some 5,200 Georgian children were living in Soviet-era institutions for underprivileged and disabled minors. Today, there are just 100, seemingly a sign that Georgia’s ambitious Child […]
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Tongue Twisting Reforms
KVEMO KARTLI REGION, Georgia | When her second child began school in September, Jamila Omarova felt a mixture of happiness, pride, and anxiety. It was a struggle to convince her family […]
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