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Kyrgyzstan ends Uzbek-language university entrance exams
As graduates prep for the crucial tests, those from the country’s largest minority wonder if there is any point in taking them.
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Did Socrates die in vain? Rescuing education from school
Are school children educated, socialized, or indoctrinated? If there’s any wonder remaining in a student after being swamped with established knowledge throughout the day, she or he would have to pursue critical thinking in the evenings.
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Do Serbian pupils know the score?
The country’s students get high marks in class, but poor results on international tests raise doubts about what they’re learning.
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Readers are Leaders
Literacy and Math for Intellectual Growth of Early Grade Students in Macedonia
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Literacy and Math for Intellectual Growth of Early Grade Students in Macedonia
On September 12 2013, the Foundation for Education and Cultural Initiatives “Step by Step” – Macedonia officially launched the USAID Readers are Leaders Project for the general public in Macedonia.
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Ukraine: Fixing Past Problems, Causing New Ones
Kyiv | Seventh-grade student Karina Ilyasheva is on her way home from school. It is already after 8 pm and she is very tired, having sat through six regular lessons […]
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Romania: Testing Times for Students
BUCHAREST | Since last September, 14-year-old Andreea Balan has been diligently preparing for the six standardized exams – three per semester – that will largely determine her academic future. Her […]
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Macedonia: Go to the Head of the Class
SKOPJE, Macedonia | Kire Krstevski admits that he doesn’t like to study. The first-year university student from the city of Bitola said he was lazy about keeping his grades up […]
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Georgia: Steps and Stumbles
TBILISI, Georgia | As the last millennium drew to a close, Georgia’s once-excellent educational system, which nurtured mathematicians, doctors, philosophers, and historians in the early 20th century, was clearly on […]
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Hungary: A Testing Time
BUDAPEST, Hungary | There’s a new joke going around Hungary: “Should I hand out the exam paper,” the teacher asks the students before the big test, “or does everyone already […]
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