Sunday, January 08, 2012

reasons #700-800, see: finland

An excellent article comparing the U.S. (and Norway) to Finland.
"There's no word for accountability in Finnish," he [Sahlberg] later told an audience at the Teachers College of Columbia University. "Accountability is something that is left when responsibility has been subtracted." 
...Since the 1980s, the main driver of Finnish education policy has been the idea that every child should have exactly the same opportunity to learn, regardless of family background, income, or geographic location. Education has been seen first and foremost not as a way to produce star performers, but as an instrument to even out social inequality.

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