{"id":1664,"date":"2012-01-29T04:37:19","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T04:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/?p=1664"},"modified":"2012-01-29T04:37:19","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T04:37:19","slug":"what-americans-keep-ignoring-about-finlands-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/?p=1664","title":{"rendered":"What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland&#8217;s School Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/national\/archive\/2011\/12\/what-americans-keep-ignoring-about-finlands-school-success\/250564\/'>What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland&#8217;s School Success<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>In the Finnish view, as Sahlberg describes it, this means that schools    should be healthy, safe environments for children. This starts with the    basics. Finland offers all pupils free school meals, easy access to health    care, psychological counseling, and individualized student guidance.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, since academic excellence wasn&#8217;t a particular priority on the    Finnish to-do list, when Finland&#8217;s students scored so high on the first PISA    survey in 2001, many Finns thought the results must be a mistake. But    subsequent PISA tests confirmed that Finland &#8212; unlike, say, very similar    countries such as Norway &#8212; was producing academic excellence through its  particular policy focus on equity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In the Finnish view, as Sahlberg describes it, this means that schools    should be healthy, safe environments for children. This starts with the    basics. Finland offers all pupils free school meals, easy access to health    care, psychological counseling, and individualized student guidance.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, since academic excellence wasn&#8217;t a particular priority on the    Finnish to-do list, when Finland&#8217;s students scored so high on the first PISA    survey in 2001, many Finns thought the results must be a mistake. But    subsequent PISA tests confirmed that Finland &#8212; unlike, say, very similar    countries such as Norway &#8212; was producing academic excellence through its  particular policy focus on equity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In his book Sahlberg quotes a line    from Finnish writer named Samuli Paronen: &#8220;Real winners do not compete.&#8221;    It&#8217;s hard to think of a more un-American idea, but when it comes to    education, Finland&#8217;s success shows that the Finnish attitude might have    merits. There are no lists of best schools or teachers in Finland. The main    driver of education policy is not competition between teachers and between    schools, but cooperation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a really inspiring structure for education, it kind of makes me feel hopeful.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland&#8217;s School Success In the Finnish view, as Sahlberg describes it, this means that schools should be healthy, safe environments for children. This starts with the basics. Finland offers all pupils free school meals, easy access to health care, psychological counseling, and individualized student guidance. In fact, since academic excellence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[658,1404,334,937,985,980,682,1403,1405,819],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-america","tag-cooperation","tag-education","tag-equality","tag-excellence","tag-finland","tag-hope","tag-linkedin","tag-responsibility","tag-school","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}