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I like it. Equality and creativity.

An impossible dream? Education reform so that all children excel. Love this passage As for accountability of teachers and administrators, Sahlberg shrugs. "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." For Sahlberg what matters is that in Finland all teachers and administrators are given prestige, decent pay, and a lot of responsibility. A master's degree is required to enter the profession, and teacher training programs are among the most selective professional schools in the country. If a teacher is bad, it is the principal's responsibility to notice and deal with it. Training and responsibility for teachers to be great teachers....? Interesting thoughts. Perhaps other education systems are as much about standardisation of teachers as they are about results?

Zero is defined as the figure or symbol which stands for the absence of quantity. In education, it also stands for the absence of hope. Students should be allowed to rework based on their teacher's good feedback, and, in the process, change the power of zero from an absence of hope to hope for meaningful improvement.

Agreed, Amanda. All things being equal, giving students the chance to improve a grade based on learning from constructive feedback is the essence of motivating improvement.

I want to know about those countries that did not have a big descrepency, why didn't he follow up on that?