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Bride Kidnapping Part II
After posting a few weeks ago about the infamous tradition of bride kidnapping, I received a fascinating message from Russell Kleinbach, a professor at Philadelphia University. Kleinbach, who holds a...
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A Painful Separation in Kazakhstan
When I heard about the Peace Corps pulling out of Kazakhstan three weeks ago, I thought about a young girl. I don’t even know her name, but she stared out of a photo that we ran with a story about her...
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The Out of Sight, Out of Mind Kids
Around the Bloc, TOL’s daily news aggregator, reported yesterday on research in Britain that should demolish any lingering doubts over the hypocrisy of the Czech Republic’s segregated education...
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Born for Drudgery?
Yesterday, TOL published a story about the launch of efforts to integrate disabled children into Moldova’s public schools. More specifically, it’s the story of Ion, a teenager with Down syndrome who...
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(Mis)Education in Bosnia
I just came across a recondite essay by the Bosnian writer Aleksandar Hemon on the portrait of dysfunction that is the post-war education system in Bosnia. A 2004 MacArthur “genius” fellow, Hemon is...
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Bosnia 2025
What will Bosnia look like in 2025? After months of debate, a group of 20 leaders from politics, academia, education and other sectors presented its thoughts at a conference this week in Sarajevo....
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A Population Puzzler
Can you name the following country? (I know, it’s the second consecutive blog post I’ve started with a quiz, but sometimes these things happen.) Between 1991 and 2011 the population decreased by...
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The Sisyphean Struggle to Desegregate Schools
A new book published by the Roma Education Fund and Central European University Press, Ten Years After: A History of Roma School Desegregation in Central and Eastern Europe, gives many theoretical and...
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Reconciling Differences in Macedonian Classrooms
I wonder – to return briefly to my last post – how history is taught to youngsters in Tatarstan. The Tatar nation-building project sponsored new textbooks reflecting a less materialistic approach to...
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Those of us who reside in Prague live a pretty shielded life, especially when it comes toward attitudes about the Roma. We read and watch the national media, which generally display tolerance toward...
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