From the Times:
Pasi Sahlberg, who heads the Centre for International Mobility and
Cooperation in Finland’s Ministry of Education and Culture, will be in
Seattle this week to talk about how his country achieved
its success without standardized tests, teacher merit pay, school
choice, or many of the other trends in American public education.
Sahlberg, who started his career as a teacher, has written a book
about that subject, titled “Finnish Lessons.”
Sahlberg will speak at a luncheon Wednesday at the Rainier Club at
820 Fourth Ave. The luncheon starts at 11:45 a.m., costs $27 and
requires an RSVP. He also will give a free public lecture at 7 p.m.
Wednesday at the University of Washington’s Kane Hall, Room 210.
5 comments:
From the article below: "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."
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/what-americans-keep-ignoring-about-finlands-school-success/250564/
- Another POV
Ok, how does Finland support students with disabilities? What does that "every student" rhetoric amount to in practice?
I'd love a response if anybody attends the public events and these topics are raised (notably, they seldom are).
curious
Special Needs students in IFinland: http://www.european-agency.org/country-information/finland/national-overview/special-needs-education-within-the-education-system
CT
And
http://www.aft.org/pdfs/americaneducator/spring2012/Sahlberg.pdf
CT
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