This volume consists of a collection of essays devoted to study of
the most recent educational reform in Russia. In his first decree
Boris Yeltsin proclaimed education a top priority of state policy.
Yet the economic decline which accompanied the collapse of the
Soviet Union dealt a crippling blow to reformist aspirations, and
to the existing school system itself. The public lost faith in
school reform and by the mid-1990s a reaction had set in.
Nevertheless, large-scale changes have been effected in finance,
structure, governance and curricula. At the same time, there has
been a renewed and widespread appreciation for the positive aspects
of the Soviet legacy in schooling. The essays presented here
compare current educational reform to reforms of the past, analyze
it in a broader cultural, political and social context, and study
the shifts that have occurred at the different levels of schooling
'from political decision-making and changes in school
administration to the rewriting textbooks and teachers' everyday
problems. The authors are both Russian educators, who have played a
leading role in implementation of the reform, and Western scholars,
who have been studying it from its very early stages. Together,
they formulate an intricate but cohesive picture, which is in
keeping with the complex nature of the reform itself. Contributors:
Kara Brown, (Indiana University) * Ben Eklof (Indiana University) *
Isak D. Froumin, (World Bank, Moscow) * Larry E. Holmes (University
of South Alabama) * Igor Ionov, (Russian History Institute of the
Russian Academy of Sciences) * Viacheslav Karpov & Elena
Lisovskaya, (Western Michigan University) * Vera Kaplan, (Tel Aviv
University) * Stephen T. Kerr, (University of Washington) * James
Muckle, (University of Nottingham) * Nadya Peterson, (Hunter
College) * Scott Seregny, (Indiana University-Purdue University
Indianapolis) * Alexander Shevyrev, (Moscow State University) *
Janet G. Vaillant, (Harvard University)
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