* [1] In recent years, American officials and prominent politicians like George Bush Jr., ex-president of the United States, Jele Klein, the former head of the New York Education Department, Michel Ri, who previously held a similar post in the Colombia district, and, finally, Arne Duncan himself, the current US Minister, unanimously spoke that there should be no more excuses for any more excuses. Schools whose students show low results during testing.

Print from the old "Oz" ... One of the living things, which came to the establishment of zemstvos, must admit, without a doubt, the pedagogical of the passages of rural teachers. It is not difficult to understand what the needs of these passages were caused.

Abalkina Irina Vsevolodovna Full professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, expert in the field of social economics, educational development, city and regional programs.

A series of essays by Boris Startsev, united in the collection, is valuable in that it shows a twenty -year period as an integral path - from the first attempts of the post -Soviet reform of education to the current stage of reform, which completed, according to many experts, the era of the so -called subject school. The narrative is divided by the author by 15 chapters, with the application of the consolidated chronicle of events from 1991 to 2011.

Analysis of the life path of Julia Fasyk [1] , a talented teacher, a best user (graduates of famous Bestuzhev courses), a zoologist, one of the first Russian women who gained access to the academic department will probably help to clarify our ideas about a generation that was formed in Russia in a special atmosphere of the XIX-XX century line. It survived in the First World War, survived two revolutions, civilian, hunger, Stalinist repressions, World War II, Blocade.

“Domestic notes”: Andrei Alexandrovich, eight years as the Minister of Education and Science ... What of what you wanted, what you planned, what you dreamed about, did not work out? How do you evaluate the results of your efforts? Andrey Fursenko: I evaluate generally satisfactory. At the same time, the final assessment will not be set by me and not today. I believe that the main problem was and remains a misunderstanding between all participants involved in the process of education.

Print Dmitry Rogozin Reforms in education have been going on for a long time. They are used to them so much that they are already and as reforms are not perceived. Their central paragraph can be considered a rejection of the principle that the population is an object of education and training. From now on, the population becomes an equal subject in the educational services market.

Greek and Latin languages ​​for our spiritual seminars and schools do not compose news; They always existed in them; They constituted one of the objects of the training of our clergy almost with the self -introduction in our country. But the study of these languages ​​was given to the spiritual schools not always the same meaning.

Igor Kon is known to the wide reader primarily as a sexologist. He was the first person in our country to speak in literary Russian about sex - an object that, as you know, was not in the USSR at all (before these topics could be discussed either in medical jargon, or with the help of obscene vocabulary). However, the contribution of Kon to the Russian intellectual tradition is much weighing.

When deciding what the education system should be, you can not do without a solution to the issue of its goals. It seems that they are obvious, understandable by themselves. Meanwhile, on many issues there is a furious dispute. To study the structure of opinions, about 5,000 statements found by search for blogs on the request “Education Reading Literature” were analyzed.

Print Anatoly Bershtein Once in ancient Greece, the teacher was a slave who escorted the boy to school and back. In the modern world, the role of the teacher, it would seem, should change significantly: the teacher is the direct guide of the student into the world of knowledge. But is it so in today's post -Soviet reality? Teachers and teachers To begin with, with all relativity, there is a conditional division of school workers into teachers and teachers.

In our history, religion and education are connected in the most closely. Russian culture was originally built on the model of Byzantine. And for the Byzantines, the whole world, according to the successful expression of Sergei Averintsev, was a school, and primarily a religious school [1] . Religion and upbringing are the main forms of socio-cultural activity that formalizes public reproduction committed by the institutions of the Church and the School.

The tradition of obtaining education abroad arose in Russia not in post -Soviet times, but more than three hundred years ago, at the end of the 17th century. For the first time, a whole group of Russian subjects was sent to study abroad in 1696. Then, “for the science of military affairs” to Italy, Holland and England, 61 noble noblemen were sent (23 of which belonged to princely birth) and the same number of soldiers seconded to them.

For many people, the ideal of school education in Russia is as follows: "To be in the West." However, such an ideal school does not exist - in every country its own history of school education is very difficult. The book of Patricia Graham tells the story of the American school of the twentieth century. Patriotic initiation (1900-1920s) At each stage in the development of the school, society formulated the goals that was supposed to meet school education.

The school system in Israel covers 1.5 million students, approximately one fifth of the population. The country has adopted a conventional division into primary (1st-4th grade), middle (5th-9th grade) and higher (10th-12th grade) levels. Basically, enrollment in primary school is carried out on a territorial basis, at subsequent stages there is a division in accordance with the specialization of the school: scientific, artistic, religious, etc.