The article evaluates the results of the transformation of the Russian higher education system in the 1990s and considers the ongoing processes that are characteristic of the systems present development. The authors argue that institutional transformations in this sphere should be given a higher...

The article presents a comprehensive view on current problems in the professional development of teachers, estimates the potential in this sphere, and describes the principal directions in the reforming of the professional development system.

The author analyzes the positions of the Peoples Comissariat of Education of Soviet Russia (the Bolshevik Education Ministry) and of the Public Education Ministry of Kolchaks government during the Civil War in Russia. These positions are analyzed in the context of their connection with the...

The article considers the reforms in Russian education throughout a large historical period comprising the 19th and the 20th centuries. The socio-political, cultural and moral basis for the reforms are established. A holistic approach to considering the reforms in Russian education uncovers a...

Selected Psychological Works. Moscow. 1989.

In public opinion, educational innovations are still only restricted to introduction of novel technological and methodological devices in teaching. The author argues that the path to essential change in education must go through a change of the communication paradigm: from a monologue to a...

This paper evaluates the impact on earnings, pensions, and other labor market outcomes of two parallel educational reforms increasing instructional time in Swedish primary school. The reforms extended the compulsory years of schooling from 6 to 7 years and the annual term length from 34.5/36.5...

The decision to take more education is complex, and is influenced by individual ability, financial constraints, family background, preferences, etc. Such factors, normally unobserved by the researcher, introduce endogeneity and heterogeneity problems into estimating the returns to education. In...

School quality is hard to define and measure. It is influenced by not only school expenditures, but also characteristics that are hard to measure like norms and peer effects among teachers and pupils. Furthermore, family background and community characteristics are important in explaining...