Why Are Finland's Schools Successful? Sweden Failing Hedge Fund Privatized!

[mitty14u2]

Finland has vastly improved in reading, math and science literacy over the past decade in large part because its teachers are trusted to do whatever it takes to turn young lives around. This 13-year-old, Besart Kabashi, received something akin to royal tutoring.


http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/why-are-finlands-schools-successful-49859555/?no-ist

Sweden's For-Profit Private School Experiment Is Turning Into A Disaster

"I've often said it's been easier to start an independent school than set up a hot-dog stand," said Eva-Lis Siren, head of Lararforbundet, Sweden's biggest teachers union.

The Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) benchmark Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) study paints a bleak picture, with Sweden now ranking below Russia in maths.
A quarter of 15-year-old boys cannot understand a basic factual text, said Anna Ekstrom, head of the NAE, while an NAE study last year showed a growing gap between students, with more and more failing to qualify for secondary education.

http://www.businessinsider.com/swedens-education-system-failures-2013-12

Privatizing Schools to Prison, we should fear the power of Corporate Greed. We have lost are moral guidance, by law corporations must make profit number one, not education or for that matter moral guidance with humans in prison, this is dangerous to are country.

[clarice]

1. Do you think that she might have had a bit of an agenda?....below

"I've often said it's been easier to start an independent school than set up a hot-dog stand," said Eva-Lis Siren, head of Lararforbundet, Sweden's biggest teachers union."

[AwareOne]

2. Of course she has an agenda

to point out that its to easy to open a "school", easier and less regulated than a hot dog stand. Did you read the article? This same thing, corporate schools for profit, is happening all across the US now.

[Rex]

3. +1

[peabody]

5. Thank you! You are quite correct.

[clarice]

6. It's probably due to the inefficiencies of our public schools.nt

[LanternWaste]

7. What specifically leads you to believe that?

What specifically leads you to believe that?

[clarice]

8. Not going to answer. Too quick on the alert button. Have a GREAT Memorial Day.nt

[hunter]

4. Education isn't like fast food.

The relationships between students and teachers in a classroom are very complex and no two classes are the same.

That's why education following corporate business models won't work.

The teacher is a professional. Every class of students requires a different menu, and every student requires individual attention.

There are also many differing but equally effective styles of teaching. Among the best teachers I remember, some were very structured in their approach, others were able to "go with the flow," generally reflecting the personality of the teacher and the students as a group.

If children leave school literate and numerate, with good critical thinking skills and an enthusiasm for any science, art, language, or technology, then the school has been successful.