The start of another school year means Lithuania is that much further from the day it broke free of foreign occupation. But the educational establishment is still working hard to shed Soviet style inefficiencies, as Parker Ruis reports.For Lithuanian school children, this year's Sept. 1 was basically the same as previous ones. As the date which consistently launches the academic year arrived, pupils wandered to school with flowers in their hands and a combined expression of excitement and dread on their faces. Throughout the country, each first-grader was paired with a twelfth-grader as the...
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