Finland's Education Approach: Less Testing, Supporting Teachers

TIME:

Spring may be just around the corner in this poor part of Helsinki known as the Deep East, but the ground is still mostly snow-covered and the air has a dry, cold bite. In a clearing outside the Kallahti Comprehensive School, a handful of 9-year-olds are sitting back to back, arranging sticks, pinecones, stones and berries into shapes on the frozen ground. The arrangers will then have to describe these shapes using geometric terms so the kids who can't see them can say what they are.

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Comments

[laborgrunt]

04:07 AM on 05/22/2011

When we have the same poverty levels as Finland then we can start comparing our education systems.

[JazzoRenee]

09:41 AM on 04/15/2011

Duh!

[AmigaMan]

12:42 PM on 04/20/2011

I was just going to say that. :) Fanned.

[pgutpgut]

08:45 AM on 04/15/2011

It doesn't matter what they are doing in Finland. American policy makers aren't the least bit interested in. They are too busy kowtowing to the whims and desires of corporate America, who will continue to turn our public schools into test-prep factories. And when the schools fail to make "adequate progress," the for-profit charter schools are in the wings waiting to take over...

[Phong Le]

07:45 AM on 04/15/2011

The title of this article should be "Finland's Education Approach: Only Allow Good Teachers To Teach."