One of our wonderful Kindergarten Teaching Assistants, Dunja Nesovic is following along with our exploration of the Finnish Educational system. She sent me this related article,
Helsinki, Finland
High-school students here rarely get more than a half-hour of
homework a night. They have no school uniforms, no honor societies, no
valedictorians, no tardy bells and no classes for the gifted. There is
little standardized testing, few parents agonize over college and kids
don't start school until age 7.
Yet by one international measure, Finnish teenagers are among the
smartest in the world. They earned some of the top scores by 15-year-old
students who were tested in 57 countries. American teens finished among
the world's C students even as U.S. educators piled on more homework,
standards and rules. Finnish youth, like their U.S. counterparts, also
waste hours online. They dye their hair, love sarcasm and listen to rap
and heavy metal. But by ninth grade they're way ahead in math, science
and reading -- on track to keeping Finns among the world's most
productive workers. READ MORE...
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