This article explores how teacher agency support, students' perseverance and work experience outside of school are related to student agency in the context of Estonia, where Estonian and Russian-speaking students are often educated separately in schools with either Estonian or Russian instructional language. The student-level data (n = 9060) were…

The paper presents the results of the research in the framework of the current trends in linguistics--text linguistics and stylistics. Now that the concept of the language norm is blurred to some extent due to the strong phenomena in language and speech dynamics, the language of texts for children should be treated with special attention and care,…

Using newly available data from the Trajectories in Education and Careers Study, the first longitudinal study on a representative sample of high school students in Russia, we examined the importance of investments in human and cultural capital on students' mathematics and reading standardized examinations, as well as on the likelihood of…

In this commentary, the author stresses that reading habits in Russia have changed since the Soviet era, and the more intellectual journals and magazines in particular have lost their importance. Audiences for books and magazines have fragmented, and there are fewer sources of commonly shared information and ideas than was true a few decades ago.…

It is acknowledged that the value of reading has gone down in today's Russian society, and this is rated as unequivocally negative. Instead of "the most well-read country in the world," Russia is now called a "society of TV viewers" by the some observers; it is not a nation of independent thinkers but passive objects of the…

This second in a series of annotated bibliographies of books from and about Russia provides annotations for more than 70 books containing Russian folk and animal tales. (FL)

Provides annotations for 25 books containing stories from and about countries that are now part of the Soviet Union. Suggests that they can help children become aware of cultures other than their own. (FL)

The third in a series of articles presenting annotations of books from and about the Soviet Union. (FL)

Provides an annotated bibliography of 42 English and Russian language periodicals and books about Russian libraries published from 1987 to 1994 intended for non-Slavic librarians planning to travel to Russia for a work/culture or study experience. An appendix describes visits to three Russian libraries. (Author/LRW)