Print Alexander Kravetsky When reading polemical articles regarding the introduction of the “Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture” into the school curriculum, one cannot help but be surprised at how differently supporters and opponents of this course interpret the same events. Sometimes it even seems that they live in different countries and describe different realities.

Print Moreno Juan After Miss Emily Sedley's six years' stay at the boarding house, I have the honor and pleasure of recommending her to her parents as a young lady well worthy of taking a proper position in their chosen and refined circle. All the virtues that distinguish a noble English young lady... are inherent in dear Miss Sedley... In music and dancing, in spelling, in all types of embroidery and needlework, she will, without a doubt, fulfill the most ardent wishes of her friends.

After many years of incessant struggles around the question of whether to teach religious disciplines in secondary schools and, if taught, then in what form, the bottom line we have, as the Ministry of Education and Science found out last summer, is the following: the subject “Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture” (OPC) is studied in at least every second subject of the Russian Federation. In approximately every tenth, the number of students exceeds ten thousand.

Print Nina Osovetskaya When discussing the results of the national project “Education” in the Council for the Implementation of Priority National Projects and Demographic Policy on September 13, 2007, a proposal was put forward to form a “modern model of education.” President Vladimir Putin gave corresponding instructions to the Russian government. Of the five points that the “model formation” plan includes, two relate to general education.

Appealing to the experience of a country that has a thousand-year historical tradition, so different from Russia’s, and, by its own definition, is creating a “socialist education system with Chinese characteristics,” at first glance may not seem entirely successful.

excerpt from memories Print Natalia Etingof Natalia Borisovna Etingof was born in 1913 in St. Petersburg. Her parents are professional revolutionary B. E. Etingof, a lawyer and artist by training, and A. A. Mukharinskaya, a lawyer. N. B. Etingof spent his childhood and early youth in Tiflis in the large family of his maternal grandfather, military doctor A. A. Mukharinsky, professor of medicine and bacteriology.

Print Maya Berzina National Wherever I visited in just over two years (1918-1920), but every time I returned to Moscow, always by train, almost always late in the evening, and Moscow was greeted by a sea of ​​lights (it’s unlikely that they were very rich in those years, but that's how I saw it). In March 1918, dad met us at the station, and in a cab, shaking along the cobblestone street, we went straight to the National Hotel (aka the First House of the Soviets), and there to room 218.

Print Yaroslav Kuzminov Why was it necessary to introduce the Unified State Exam, what functions should it perform? The Unified State Exam is an independent quality assessment system - independent of those who teach and those who admit students to the university. In the Soviet Union, and even later, we had a system where society seemed to completely trust the educational staff - both the school and the university.

One fine day a child comes into the world. For the time being, he is raised in the family. Then kindergarten is included in the education process, followed by school, and so on until the age of 17-18. Question: what did he do during this most important period of his life? Answer: nothing more than mastering the basic programs of this very life - its meanings, codes, languages, cultural texts, values, norms.

Alexander YARIN, editor of Otechestvennye Zapiski, talks with State Duma deputy Professor Valery ZUBOV. To begin with, I would like to define the subject of conversation. What kind of educational institutions are being designed under the name of national universities? After all, if you enter this phrase into any Russian search engine, you will get dozens of results. What caused the need to create two large national universities in Krasnoyarsk and Rostov?

Print Alexander Uvarov Reforms of the national school have been going on for decades. But few will argue with the authors of the recently published report of the Public Chamber, who claim: “...There is a disproportionately larger amount of work ahead. Almost all components of our educational system need a qualitative restructuring” [1] . One of the main directions of this work is the informatization of education.

Print Dmitry Faleev It's always nice to visit good old friends. On New Year's Eve - doubly so! Taking a liter bottle of homemade apple wine, on Christmas day I went to a gypsy camp located near the village of Panevo, Ivanovo region, to find out how Greko, Zheniko, Lisa, Timur were doing. What's new with them? Share yours. I got off at the bus stop and started walking. There was not a soul on the snowy street: no children, no women. I think it’s strange, did something happen?

Print Evgenia Abelyuk It is now clear that writing a textbook [1] was stupid. Years of work. Two publishing houses. And the result is a book “on the shelf.” True, in a two-color layout, with good illustrations. One strong-willed decision is enough - and she is in the printing house. But there will be no such strong-willed decision. At least not yet. And there are several reasons. In fact, this is a well-known truth: creating a textbook is a thankless task.

Why is the Unified State Exam needed, what problems does the introduction of the Unified State Exam in our country solve?

Viktor Aleksandrovich, now discussions about the Unified State Exam have calmed down somewhat, but I will still ask a naive question. Why was it necessary to introduce the Unified State Exam, to what extent was it relevant, and what did the organizers expect and expect from the introduction of this type of exam? Let's turn to history. By the year 2000, the shortcomings of our educational system, which hindered its modernization, became clearly visible.