ABSTRACT
The great rush to rediscover and redefine national secular heroes following the 1991 collapse of the USSR is one part of the story of school reform in Kazakstan today. A new expertise is unfolding in this country as educators are freed from constraints of the Soviet system. Parents have a new opportunity to make national educational policy more responsive to their needs. Unfortunately the economic, political, and social conditions surrounding Kazakstan’s schools devastate these potentialities.
