Free Will or Fate?
(World News Russia)

Unlike many other countries, Russian children`s educational path is decided from an early age. Starting with the first grade, parents try to send their children to schools where they can remain until they graduate after either the 9th or 11th grades. Moreover, many families do not use the opportunity available to them to transfer their children to a better school partway through their education. The result is that inter-school mobility remains low and a child`s educational path is often hard-wired early on, HSE University sociologists in St. Petersburg found. Non-mobile education Not surprisingly, larger cities offer a wider choice of schools and students can switch between them. Smaller...