What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success - Anu Partanen - The Atlantic
- "There's no word for accountability in Finnish," he later told an audience at the Teachers College of Columbia University. "Accountability is something that is left when responsibility has been subtracted."
- - By Maggie Wolfe Riley
- The problem facing education in America isn't the ethnic diversity of the population but the economic inequality of society, and this is precisely the problem that Finnish education reform addressed. More equity at home might just be what America needs to be more competitive abroad
- Finland's experience shows that it is possible to achieve excellence by focusing not on competition, but on cooperation, and not on choice, but on equity
- Decades ago, when the Finnish school system was badly in need of reform, the goal of the program that Finland instituted, resulting in so much success today, was never excellence. It was equity.
- Real winners do not compete
- cooperation
- instrument to even out social inequality
- Finland offers all pupils free school meals, easy access to health care, psychological counseling, and individualized student guidance
Have students to create visual works of art online. Silk is an interactive site where students can drag their mouse around on the page to create beautiful weaving & whirling designs. Drawing lines on the screen will add color to the moving art, & by speeding up or slowing down their movements the effect will change. Students can choose between 6 different colors, & 3 different modes of symmetry. Students can share their creation with a simple link. Have students describe their unique artwork as a description & creative writing exercise. Also available as an app for the iPad.
- - By Amy Kuhr
Live Hangout Schedule - EducationOnAir
a list of all the sessions in the Education On Air series for 2013. Check back periodically for new sessions.
- - By Jeffrey Mason
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