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 The author argues in favor of the necessity to abolish the outdated concept that higher education is enough to train specialists.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...

The article analyzes the varying efficiency of the same strategies and methods of development of general education systems. A review of Western practices and research conducted by the Education Development Institute of the HSE show that development mechanisms are particularly efficient in...

This is a short analysis of current trends in the development of education from the point of view of a practicing educator with 30 years of experience. Revolutionary transformations: are the upper echelons able and are the lower echelons willing?

A comparison of education systems in the USA, Western Europe, China, and modern Russia, shows that urgent reform of Russian universities is necessary. Based on the well-known theory of inferior goods, the author concludes that a large segment of Russian higher education either offers services of...

The article recognizes that the knowledge society and the economics of knowledge have considerably changed the demands placed on education. The teaching of concrete subjects is now combined with a general emphasis on general intellectual development and the stimulation of creativity and...

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