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Elena Gallová Kriglerová, Tina Gažovičová, Ingrid KosováThe Open Society Foundations, REF and UNICEF would like to acknowledge with appreciation and gratitude the leadership provided by Dr. John Bennett in conducting the Roma Early Childhood Inclusion research.
This research report is based on a household survey in 16 localities participating in A Good Start (http://www.romaeducationfund.hu/activities) in Hungary, Macedonia, Romania, and Slovakia. The authors would like to thank all mediators and administrators of the survey from the participating organizations.
- Pitfalls and Bias - Entry Testing and the Overrepresentation of Romani Children in Special Education
The main author of this document is Julia M.White.In their role as peer reviewers, Lani Florian, Gabriela Hrabaňová, Tina Hyder, Sarah Klaus, Tünde Kovács-Cerović,and Divya Lata provided valuable comments on a previous draft.
Lucie Fremlova and Heather Ureche of Equality conducted the field research for this study. Mihai Surdu of the Roma Education Fund contributed to the interview guides for pupils, parents, and school staff, elaborated the chapter on the overrepresentation of Roma in special education and practical schools in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
The European Commission has commissioned the European Roma Rights Centre to conduct, in cooperation with the Roma Education Fund, a comprehensive analysis of policies,programmes and projects for Roma in 18 Member States.
The report presents the results from the progress survey of non-governmental projects for desegregation of Roma education in Bulgaria, conducted by a team of experts with the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee for the Roma Education Fund in the period September – December 2007.
A REF azzal a szándékkal bocsátja rendelkezésre ezt a dokumentációs füzetet, hogy segítséget nyújtson azon közép- és kelet-európai országok kormányai számára, akik a romák és a nem romák között meglévő oktatásbeli különbségek csökkentését megcélzó, a feltételekhez kötött szociális támogatási rendszer bevezetését fontolgatják.
This working paper is intended to serve as a resource for governments in Central and Eastern Europe as they consider whether to introduce conditional cash transfers (CCTs) for education as a tool to reduce the gap in educational outcomes between Roma and non-Roma.
On 1 January 2005, new legislation on education entered into force which was intended to eliminate discrimination and segregation of Romani children in the Czech education system. The report was authored and finalised by ERRC Programmes Coordinator Tara Bedard in co-operation with the Roma Education Fund.
This report presents the results of an integrated analysis (qualitative, quantitative and document analysis) of the impact of the affirmative action for Roma people in secondary and higher education institutions.
This study estimates the expected long-term budgetary benefits to investing into Roma education in Hungary. By budgetary benefits we mean the direct financial benefits to the national budget. The main idea is that investing extra public money into Roma education would pay off even in fiscal terms.
A tanulmány célja az, hogy megbecsülje a roma gyerekek oktatásába történő extra befektetésekből adódó, hosszú távú várható költségvetési nyereséget. Költségvetési nyereségen a költségvetésbe közvetlenül befolyó pénzösszeget értjük.
The subject of the research presented here is the OOIH integration program focusing on 45 featured schools. The scope of activities pursued by OOIH is much wider but we do not look at anything else. Our objective has been to evaluate the impact of the program.
- School as Ghetto - Systemic Overrepresentation of Roma in Special Education in Slovakia (EN version)
The present study provides, for the first time, a comprehensive picture of the overrepresentation of Roma in special education in Slovakia. The situation is as bad in Slovakia as in the Czech Republic – approximately 60 percent of children in special education in Slovakia are Roma.
- School as Ghetto-Systemic Overrepresentation of Roma in Special Education in Slovakia (SLO version))
Predkladaná štúdia po prvýkrát poskytuje podrobný obraz o nadmernom zastúpení Rómov v špeciálnom školstve na Slovensku. Situácia na Slovensku je rovnako zlá, ako v Českej republike – Rómovia tvoria na Slovensku asi 60% detí v špeciálnom školstve.
