Central Europe
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In Lithuania, Sex Education Remains Taboo
KLAIPEDA. Lithuania | There was no sex in the Soviet Union – or so people liked to joke in a time when propaganda to thwart “fetid capitalism” or “Western decadence” warned […]
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First steps of inclusive education in the regions of the Czech Republic
For more than a year, Open Society Fund Prague has been collaborating with the regional governorates of the Czech Republic in developing an inclusive education strategy. Karlovy Vary governorate was […]
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Learning Curve: Education stories from Central & Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Transitions has released a collection of some of most recent articles on education from around the region. The articles cover a wide range of topics and were written with the […]
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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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Fighting overrepresentation may not be enough
On 13 November 2007 the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled in the case of the D.H. and Others v. the Czech Republic that Romani children were (indirectly) discriminated […]
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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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Let’s laugh together, let’s learn together- Hungarian campaign on inclusive education
The Grassroots Europe Initiative of the Education Support Program seeks to help European community-based grassroots organizations in their efforts to mobilize their communities and public opinion around issues of marginalization in […]
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The Czech Republic opens a debate on the aims of education
What is the aim of education? Is it to maintain and develop culture, enterprise and prosperity, or to promote active citizenship? How can the teaching profession’s prestige be improved? And […]
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In Lithuania, Too Many Teachers Chasing Too Few Pupils
VILNIUS | At 75, Algimantas Adomenas is still spry, agile, and exuberant. He has another reason to feel satisfied with his life: he still works, in a job he loves.
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