Michael moore education in finland
Why Finland has the Best Education by Michael Moore.
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By Carolanne Wright
Contributing writer for Wake Up World
America’s public school system is in crisis, with burned-out teachers and failing literacy rates, along with ongoing issues of bullying and violence.
Michael moore education in finland
But the most telling sign of decay is our lackluster PISA, or Programme For International Student Assessment, ranking of U.S. high school students — which shows the U.S. stalled around 27th place in mathematics and 17th in reading.
With all our standardized testing, long school days, mountains of homework and relatively high expenditure per student, we’re still falling behind.
In contrast, Finland has consistently ranked at or near the top in all three PISA competencies since 2000, placing first in science, second in math and third in reading in the 2006 survey.
Curiously, the Finnish have an unorthodox — and seemingly counterintuitive — approach to education; an approach that some even view as a “slacker’s path” to academic success. A