Description:Education in Eastern Europe and Eurasia provides an essential reference resource to education development and key education issues in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Academics and researchers working closely in the field cover education and educational development in Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan Georgia and Israel. Each chapter provides an overview of the development of education in each country, focusing particularly on contemporary education policies and some of the problems these countries face in implementing educational reform. The book also covers the social and political issues which impact on the education system and schooling and governments’ responses to recent local, regional and global events.