Caucasus
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Azerbaijan: Everybody Gets a Piece
Baku | Azerbaijani education officials certainly had cause to celebrate this summer. After nearly 15 years of stalled efforts and heated debates, parliament passed a long-awaited new law on education, […]
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Georgia: Pilot Program
Tbilisi’s public school No. 43 is one of 100 schools implementing a pilot version of the National Curriculum Program, a key element of the Ministry of Education and Science’s reform […]
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Georgia: Two Histories of One Homeland
JAVAKHETY | Teachers in Armenian school No. 1 in Ninotsminda spent the last weeks of the summer trying to figure out how many textbooks to order from the Georgian education […]
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Georgia: No Room For Sex Education
TBILISI | Sixteen year-old Andro Chitadze is a high school student at public school No. 61 in Tblisi. Like his classmates, Chitadze gets his information about sex everywhere except in […]
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Armenia: School Uniforms: In Good or Bad Taste?
YEREVAN | Gayane Grigoryan, a 27 year-old resident of Yerevan, wore her school uniform for only a couple of weeks at the start of the second grade. When Armenia declared […]
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Armenia: Reluctant Reformers
YEREVAN | Maritsa Abajyan, 41, a second-grade teacher in Yerevan’s 121 school, was supposed to receive a set of colorful children’s furniture this year for her classroom – just one […]
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Kyrgyzstan: A Corrupted Future
OSH | “A friend of mine has been working in Russia for the last two years,” says Rustam Saidov, a third-year student from a university based in Osh. “Every six […]
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Kosovo: Worth the Paper It’s Printed On?
PRISTINA | Last month, from one day to the next, thousands of students in Kosovo learned that they would not be receiving the university degree that they thought they had […]
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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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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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