Turkish girls in literacy battle
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Rural schools in Turkey are striving to overcome local traditions and raise literacy standards among young girls.
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BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell talks to headscarf wearers and headscarf opponents to understand the Turkish debate on Muslim dress.
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Children at International Schools overseas live out the raw material of a literature unique to them and to their experiences.
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ISTANBUL -- It's the head scarf, stupid. If it weren't for a three-foot-square piece of fabric, sometimes black and stark but more often fancy or lacy, rosy pink or flowery, Turkey's 42 million voters wouldn't be going to the polls Sunday.
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The gap between the reading and literacy achievements of primary school boys and girls continues to grow in New Zealand, according to a new report.
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A new poll says more than a third of Turkish women believe domestic violence is justified in certain circumstances.
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A governmental plan to shift the main language of instruction in the nationa s Russian high schools to Estonian is being viewed with uncertainty and pessimism by principals and teachers, a recent survey by the ...
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ZHUANGZITOU, China  - Xiao Wei's family is struggling to ensure their little girl will have more than a primary education, but in the villages of northwestern China, the odds are stacked against her.
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A landmark multi-ethnic school in Kosovo is struggling to maintain its mix of pupils after Serb families withdrew their children.
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KOLOMNA, Russia - One of the most discordant debates in Russian society is playing out in public schools like those in this city not far from Moscow, where the other day a teacher named Irina Donshina set aside her textbooks, strode before her second-graders, and, as if speaking from a pulpit, posed a simple question:
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When Tori Boyles, of Columbia, Mo., takes a test at school, an adult often reads the questions to her because the 9-year-old has learning disabilities that make reading difficult.
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ZENICA, Bosnia -- They met in 1985 as Syrian immigrants in Croatia, two students in their 20s grappling with a language and a culture they didn't understand.
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A high court battle between a schoolgirl  and her head teacher over the right to wear a purity ring  pledging her to virginity until marriage has reignited debate  in Britain about how to make sex education effective.
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The poverty, unemployment and lack of opportunity that afflict many of Turkeyâs cities are crushing in the regional capital of Trabzon â especially for young people.
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Turkey has its own  version of "Pop Idol" which produces stars overnight -- a  belly-dancing competition with text-message voting which has  stormed to the top of Saturday night ratings.
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In India, there are nearly 300 million people who can't read and another 400 million with very basic knowledge of the alphabet. That is the impetus behind The Literacy Project, an initiative that integrates Google's services with information on literacy.
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It is rarely a simple thing to be a novelist in Turkey. For Elif Shafak, it has never been more complicated.