Reply to The education miracle in Finland

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "The education miracle in Finland"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]I am from Europe (although not from Finland), and I did experienced some of the things in the article. in my country school is public and very good (there are some private schools where lazy kids from well off families could get a piece of paper of a diploma without studying), including at the university level  (my great law school was $100 a year in tuition). we learned to read and write at 6 yr in first grade, before there was only play. also, we did not have standardized test, we were evaluated by the teacher during the year, and took exams at the end of each cycle (elementary, middle school, high school). there was no social promotion, kids could fail and had to repeat the year.  teachers had no evaluations, and there was no school rankings or kids rankings inside school, so there was no competitions among kids  ( I was amazed when I came to the US for and LLM and students were ranked in the first 5%, 10% and so on, nothing like that happened in my European law school).  However, I am not sure some things that work in Finland can work here. the article talks about percentage of foreign born students, but often problem students are born in the US. kids in ward 8 are most likely born in the US, and I am not sure Finland has social situation similar to the one in the US. in my country we did not have situations of widespread economic and social problems like in the US. making sure that teachers are well qualified is really important (and I understand that in DC until recently there were teachers who did not have basic qualifications), but  I doubt Finland has areas with tens of thousands of superpoor people from broken families where kids have kids  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics