The Status of School Reform in the Kyrgyz Republic, 2002 (Research Brief)

The argument is made that education reform in former Soviet states must come from outside of the titular ministries in these countries as education ministers are of minor importance in national politics, and human capital theories seeking to "rationalize" education are not part of these ministry's understandings of the purposed of schooling. From whence would/does significant school change come? And what are the internal barriers to education change in Central Asia?

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Alan DeYoung, of the University of Kentucky, was a 2002-03 Short-Term Travel Grants fellow.