URL: Better ideas from Finland « The Standard
Dianne Ravitch in the NY Review of Books shows how Finland also leads the world in education - and with few tests and excellent teachers, they don't need to bag any "bad" ones. ... First, Finland has one of the highest-performing school systems in the world, as measured by the Programme for International Student Assessment ( PISA ), which assesses reading, mathematical literacy, and scientific literacy of fifteen-year-old students in all thirty-four nations of the ...
