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Sean Hampton-ColeRT @iEducator RT @apuustin: What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart? http://t.co/i8v3IdeW #edchatsa
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Ashley TanWhat Makes Finnish Kids So Smart? http://is.gd/c046c
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Finnish teachers pick books and customize lessons as they shape students to national standards. "In most countries, education feels like a car factory. In Finland, the teachers are the entrepreneurs," says Mr. Schleicher, of the Paris-based OECD, which began the international student test in 2000.
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inland's high-tax government provides roughly equal per-pupil funding, unlike the disparities between Bev
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Bill RawlinsonHigh-school students here rarely get more than a half-hour of homework a night. They have no school uniforms, no honor societies, no valedictorians, no tardy bells and no classes for the gifted. There is little standardized testing, few parents agonize ov
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Steorling *An interesting article on a very different approach to educating the masses to the one employed in the US.
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annestYet by one international measure, Finnish teenagers are among the smartest in the world. They earned some of the top scores by 15-year-old students who were tested in 57 countries. American teens finished among the world's C students even as U.S. educator
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"We don't have oil or other riches. Knowledge is the thing Finnish people have,"
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Finnish educators believe they get better overall results by concentrating on weaker students rather than by pushing gifted students ahead of everyone else. The idea is that bright students can help average ones without harming their own progress.
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Teachers must hold master's degrees, and the profession is highly competitive: More than 40 people may apply for a single job. Their salaries are similar to those of U.S. teachers, but they generally have more freedom.
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One explanation for the Finns' success is their love of reading. Parents of newborns receive a government-paid gift pack that includes a picture book. Some libraries are attached to shopping malls, and a book bus travels to more remote neighborhoods like a Good Humor truck.
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Finnish teachers with chalkboards instead of whiteboards, and lessons shown on overhead projectors instead of PowerPoint.
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Finland separates students for the last three years of high school based on grades; 53% go to high school and the rest enter vocational school. (All 15-year-old students took the PISA test.) Finland has a high-school dropout rate of about 4% -- or 10% at vocational schools -- compared with roughly 25% in the U.S., according to their respective education departments.
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Finnish students have little angstata -- or teen angst -- about getting into the best university, and no worries about paying for it. College is free. There is competition for college based on academic specialties -- medical school, for instance. But even the best universities don't have the elite status of a Harvard.
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the Finns don't begin school until age 7, a year later than most U.S. first-graders.
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Katie DayWhat Makes Finnish Kids So Smart? Finland's teens score extraordinarily high on an international test. American educators are trying to figure out why. By ELLEN GAMERMAN February 29, 2008;
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Jonathan SchmidIn most countries, education feels like a car factory. In Finland, the teachers are the entrepreneurs," says Mr. Schleicher, of the Paris-based OECD, which began the international student test in 2000.
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Rodd Lucierinteresting article...
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Jeff GiddensFinland's teens score extraordinarily high on an international test. American educators are trying to figure out why.
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craig rolandFinland's teens score extraordinarily high on an international test. American educators are trying to figure out why.
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brian rodneyFinland's teens score extraordinarily high on an international test. American educators are trying to figure out why.
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Finland's teens score extraordinarily high on an international test. American educators are trying to figure out why.
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