Author discusses the most important and controversial issues associated with the project of educational standards for high school: a paradigm shift from vseobuch to actionism, the need for teacher retraining, the changing nature of public control over the school and also the question of when new...

How to stop reporting false grades on final examinations is one of the most complicated problems of our education. A discussion at a meeting of the Russian Public Council on the Development of Education (RPCDE) is perhaps the first professional discussion of this serious problem, which has both...

The authors suggest a novel method for measuring how well universities are adhering to the parameters of the Bologna process. The importance of such techniques is due to the fact that by 2010, Russia has to complete reforms of the higher education system in accordance to with the Bologna...

It is the pedagogical training of teachers that affects the quality of schools, and it is the quality of schools that affects the quality of professional training. Having begun the reform of education, we have forgotten that it should start with the educators. Russia has made a historical turn....

The paper is a concise presentation of the author's analytic report for The Heritage of Eurasia foundation published in 2004. The author argues in favor of the necessity to abolish the outdated concept that higher education is enough to train specialists. In the modern world it should be...

This article attempts to introduce a new paradigm of education modernization. The education system should become a key socialization institution, and it must play a leading role in forming the values, norms, attitudes, and behavioral stereotypes of the Russian population. The author shows the...

Implementation of the Bologna agreement, which now embraces all European countries, leads to an overhaul of national education systems. Anticipating the organized transition of Russian universities to the multilevel education model, it is highly relevant to analyze structural transformations of...

It is well known that French ideas on the reform of education infl uenced the development of pedagogical theory in Russia in the late 19th - early 20th century. However, in order to correctly assess the extent and signifi cance of this phenomenon, it is necessary to investigate the specifi c...