Finland Bound
I’m leaving tomorrow for a week-long junket fact-finding mission to Finland along with some other think tank people and journalists who will be learning why the Finns are beating the world on PISA and...
View ArticleFinland Cont’d.
As you’d expect, Finland’s child care policies are more generous than ours; Matt Yglesias explains more here and here. Meanwhile, on the teaching front, all K-12 teachers are required to go through...
View ArticleFinnish Women and Shanghai Rock the World
Today’s results from the 2009 PISA in reading, math and science skills of 15 year olds were released. See results (here) and commentary on it (here and here).There is always something of interest to be...
View ArticleReview: The Smartest Kids in the World
Compared to students from other industrialized countries, American students are, at best, average. Last week the US Department of Education published “First Look at PISA 2012,” sounding the alarm...
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