Documents - Reforming Schools and Universities

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11.	Reflections on the Dissolution of the GDR Academy of Science and the Founding of Successor Institutes (2005) Prof. Dr. Peter Joehnk, a West German co-founder of the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research in Dresden, describes key steps in the dissolution of the GDR Academy of Sciences....
12.	Teachers at a "Problem School" Issue a Cry for Help (March 30, 2006) Unable to cope with the breakdown of discipline, the increase in violence, and students’ complete lack of motivation, teachers at a Berlin Hauptschule where students from immigrant backgrounds....
13.	A Journalist Comments on the Need for Greater Attention to Early Childhood Education (June 30, 2006) A journalist describes the need for better, more extensive, and more innovative early childhood education, and he criticizes the lagging political will to provide the funds to make it a reality.
14.	Conflicting Opinions on the Success of the "Junior Professorship" (July 13, 2006) In this newspaper article, a journalist sums up the controversial debate sparked by a study conducted by the Center for Higher Education Development [Centrum für Hochschulentwicklung or CHE]....
15.	A Journalist Discusses the Results of the "Competition for Excellence" among Universities (October 19, 2006) A journalist reports on the mainly positive response to the federal government’s “Competition for Excellence.” The goal of the competition is to improve the performance of German universities by....
16.	Students Protest the School and University Reform (June 25, 2009) High school and university students organized a nationwide strike to protest the new reform measures at German secondary schools and universities. The government responded with efforts to “reform....
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