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[ncsm-members] Finland's Unorthodox Education System - Best In The World
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Nov 27, 2012 7:10 PM
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From Business Insider, Tuesday, November 27, 2012. See
http://www.businessinsider.com/finlands-education-system-best-in-world-2012-11
. Our thanks to Mike Martin for drawing out attention to this article.
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Why Finland's Unorthodox Education System Is The Best In The World
By Adam Taylor
A new global league table, produced by the Economist Intelligence
Unit for Pearson, has found Finland to be the best education system
in the world.
The rankings combined international test results and data such as
graduation rates between 2006 and 2010, the BBC reports.
For Finland, this is no fluke. Since it implemented huge education
reforms 40 years ago, the country's school system has consistently
come in at the top for the international rankings for education
systems. [See
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/education/from-finland-an-intriguing-school-reform-model.html?src=me&ref=general
]
But how do they do it?
It's simple - by going against the evaluation-driven, centralized
model that much of the Western world uses.
Click on
http://www.businessinsider.com/finlands-education-system-best-in-world-2012-11#finnish-children-dont-start-school-until-they-are-7-1
to take a tour of one of the most successful education systems in the world .
There are 27 slides with captions giving important information
[Source: NYTimes]
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Dept. of Curriculum & Instruction
Southern Illinois University
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