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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course, some of it is funny... "Finnish schools vary so little because the schools have the same curriculum". ummmm--maybe it is also because the Finnish socio-economic/language population also varies so little from school-to-school. The rest is pretty interesting though. I have heard over and over about play-based learning in the early years. Second child is going that route. First child was in a more academic setting. [/quote] I thought that at first, too. Actually, the population in Finland is more diverse than you would expect with a growing influx of immigrants from Bangladesh, Iraq, Russia and parts of Africa. In one of the Finnish schools that has been successful, half of the population came from somewhere else. You can read the article here. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/Why-Are-Finlands-Schools-Successful.html?c=y&page=1[/quote] I Haven't read the article yet, so forgive me if it's in there, but I wonder if the immigrant children are together with the Finnish kids. We lived in another European country that had "black schools" (yes, people called them that) where the children went until they could learn the language. Those children never had a shot at college. They were basically tracked into vocational school from the moment they got there.[/quote]
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