Pasi Sahlberg: “Finnish Lessons” (Video) #Edcamp Santiago

The Scandinavian country is an education superpower because it values equality more than excellence.

What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School Success

Everyone agrees the United States needs to improve its education system dramatically, but how? One of the hottest trends in education reform lately is looking at the stunning success of the West’s reigning education superpower, Finland.

Trouble is, when it comes to the lessons that Finnish schools have to offer, most of the discussion seems to be missing the point…

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Born in the Year of the Tiger in the first month of Aquarius in a small, rural Arkansas town called Luxora. Taught to read and do basic math before kindergarten by my mother and big brother, breezed through 12 years of a high school education with a GPA of 93.50 and vowed to never study again.... (How wrong I was... I have never stopped studying, be it formal or informal I love to study and learn new things...
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