Eastern Europe Pressured To Integrate Roma Students
Gypsies have about as much access to high-quality education in Central and Eastern Europe as African-Americans did in the United States in the early days of the civil rights movement a half-century ago.
At least that's the view of Angela Kóczé, who, as the
education director for the European Roma Rights Center, is working
untiringly to prod governments in her native Hungary and neighboring
lands to improve educational opportunities for her people.
Ms. Kóczé is a member of Central and Eastern Europe's largest minority, a people who arrived in Europe after the 10th century from India. Many Gypsies, also known as Roma, enter school speaking only Romani, but others know the language of the dominant cultures in which they live upon entering school. Historically, Gypsies were primarily nomadic, but most...
This article is available to subscribers only.
To keep reading this article and more, subscribe now or purchase this article.
Subscribe to Education Week and Save
Get a full year and save up to 45%!
Viewed
Emailed
Recommended
Commented
- Program Coordinator
- Institute for Educational Advancement, South Pasadena, CA
- Principals
- Prince George's County Public Schools, MD
- 2 Positions -Associate Superintendent and Chief Academic Officer, and Director of Human of Resources
- Washington County Public Schools, Hagerstown, MD
- Superintendent
- Pinellas County Schools, Pinellas County, FL
- K-8 Principal
- EdVantages/Performance Academies, Detroit, MI
