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What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success - Anu Partanen - The Atlantic - 37 views

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shared by Maggie Wolfe Riley on 21 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • "There's no word for accountability in Finnish," he later told an audience at the Teachers College of Columbia University. "Accountability is something that is left when responsibility has been subtracted."
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      Maggie Wolfe Riley on 21 Mar 13
       
      Wow did this ever strike a chord! Give us more responsibility, and let us show what we can do. When you reduce it to "accountability" you've taken away our power.
  • The problem facing education in America isn't the ethnic diversity of the population but the economic inequality of society, and this is precisely the problem that Finnish education reform addressed. More equity at home might just be what America needs to be more competitive abroad
  • Finland's experience shows that it is possible to achieve excellence by focusing not on competition, but on cooperation, and not on choice, but on equity
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  • Decades ago, when the Finnish school system was badly in need of reform, the goal of the program that Finland instituted, resulting in so much success today, was never excellence. It was equity.
  • Real winners do not compete
  • cooperation
  • instrument to even out social inequality
  • Finland offers all pupils free school meals, easy access to health care, psychological counseling, and individualized student guidance
Maggie Wolfe Riley

Writing With Web Logs - 45 views

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shared by Maggie Wolfe Riley on 04 May 10 - No Cached
  • Maggie Wolfe Riley on 04 May 10
     
    Using blogs for teaching.
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Education - Change.org: Tutorial: Two Uses of Technology to Improve Literacy and Critic... - 0 views

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shared by Maggie Wolfe Riley on 03 Feb 09 - Cached
  • It's easy, efficient, and turbo-effective literacy, research, and information management. It's unique to the Berners-Lee Age. Gutenberg would have loved it. Some high-profile "researchers" apparently know little of it.
  • Maggie Wolfe Riley on 03 Feb 09
     
    two examples showing how blind the UCLA research was to today's possibilities, how behind the times.... It's easy, efficient, and turbo-effective literacy, research, and information management. It's unique to the Berners-Lee Age. Gutenberg would have loved it. Some high-profile "researchers" apparently know little of it.
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