New website launched on education issues in transitional countries

New website launched on education issues in transitional countries

Transitions Online (TOL) has launched a new website called Chalkboard (http://chalkboard.tol.org), dedicated to news and analysis of education issues in transitional countries. The project is funded by the Open Society Institute's Education Support Program.

Chalkboard's offerings include:

• Highlights of the key obstacles and success stories in education reform, from critical thinking skills, to teacher training, corruption and curriculum development.
• A database of Transitions Online's articles on education in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
• The "Snapshots of Reform" series: overviews of the education reform process in 32 countries, from Eastern Europe to Central Asia, South East Asia and Africa.
• Resources, tools and information for journalists to help with writing engaging news and feature stories on education topics.

Transitions (www.tol.org), a nonprofit organization based in Prague, supports the development of a strong, independent media in the 29 post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

Questions about Chalkboard or about writing for TOL should be addressed to the project manager, Kristy Ironside: ironsidek@tol.org