Addresses the issues involved when assessing the effectiveness of Russian teachers' efforts and the quality of education. Describes the teacher-qualification examinations that are intended to improve and ensure teacher effectiveness. Conveys the need of high standards for teachers, but realizes that most teachers unfortunately do not achieve the…

The paper considers the definition of high quality preschool from a Vygotskian perspective. Similarities and differences in the issues faced in Russia and those in the United States are discussed as background. Three major ideas are considered from the work of Vygotsky and of his students/colleagues, Daniel Elkonin and Alexander Zaporozhets. The…

This article deals with the Bologna process and the effect that it may bring to Russian education. In this article, the author discusses answers to questions regarding the Bologna process. The author also discusses the aims of the Bologna process, which consists of: (1) the adoption of the two-level system of education, the bachelor's and master's…

The liberalization of civic life has caused broad segments of the population to take a great deal of interest in education as a value. For the first time in the history of the Russian school system, it is not the intrasystem methods that the object of discussion, but rather the socially oriented technologies of the modernization of society using…

The emergence and development of the nonstate sector of higher education in Russia was not an easy process: the institutions were under the constant scrutiny of the legislative and executive branches. Due to the "politically even-handed" resolutions that the Ministry and the Committee of the Russian Federation Council of Federation…

Asks questions about the reorganization of Russian society, including, how can educational systems contribute to national consensus building? and how prepared is Russia's system to make such a contribution? Concludes that despite considerable efforts by educators, the Russian educational system is in jeopardy and cannot contribute effectively to…

This article talks about the quality of education in a nonstate institution of higher learning. At a meeting of college and university vice rectors for instruction held in early 2004, it was suggested that all specialist training ought to be concentrated in state-run educational institutions. Analysis of practices in institutions of higher…

This article focuses on the difficulties afflicting the system of higher education as a result of the decline in the overall level of student training and the "gap between the level of education of secondary school graduates and historically established requirements of higher education in Russia." The author has been teaching sociology…

Provides information on night school, also called shift school. States that night school accommodates the rehabilitation of young people. Questions whether it has the capabilities that would make it a rehabilitative educational institution. Examines the activities of night school to determine its principal mission. (CMK)

The unified state examination, which combines the final certification of school graduates and the entrance tests for enrollment in an institution of higher learning, makes it possible to evaluate the effectiveness of the education process in the schools and to determine the strong and weak points of the instruction of particular school subjects;…

Stresses the importance of the extensive search for innovation in the St. Petersburg (Russia) schools. Discusses the strategic innovative thinking and transformation of the educational process, not including the innovative administrative activity, by exploring the four levels of innovations: (1) methodological; (2) institutional; (3) content…

One of the most important problems of education in a society that has a complex stratificational structure is education's accessibility for a number of social groups whose starting conditions are not favorable. Among these groups, "handicapped children" occupy a special place. Handicapped children's ability to obtain a good-quality…

Discusses the role of the family and state in paying for the education of children in Russia. Stresses that even though families are spending increasing amounts to pay for educational services this does not erase the need for State investments in the sphere of education. (CMK)

Explains that the experience of college students' practice teaching exhibits a number of shortcomings that derive from the content of education in universities and teaching institutions in Russia. Addresses the quality of college students' overall-scientific training and the psychological-teacher training in the shaping of the teacher. (CMK)

Surveys the general organizational principles and forms of keeping the zemstvo (regional) statistics on Russian public education. Conveys that they were subdivided into three types: (1) the current statistics that continuously monitored schools; (2) basic surveys that provided a comprehensive characterization of a given territory's public…