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Tom March

What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success - Anu Partanen - National -... - 1 views

www.theatlantic.com/...250564

finland Education reform The Atlantic

shared by Tom March on 03 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • The answers Finland provides seem to run counter to just about everything America's school reformers are trying to do.
  • "There's no word for accountability in Finnish,"
  • "Accountability is something that is left when responsibility has been subtracted."
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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.
  • 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.
Jackie O'Brien

What if the Secret to Success Is Failure? - NYTimes.com - 6 views

www.nytimes.com/...ret-to-success-is-failure.html

shared by Jackie O'Brien on 15 Sep 11 - No Cached
    • Tom March
      Tom March on 16 Sep 11
       
      Read through this article and highlight or comment on things that you think would resonate with your students or colleagues.
  • He is a big thinker, always chasing new ideas, and a conversation with him can feel like a one-man TED conference, dotted with references to the latest work by behavioral psychologists and management gurus and design theorists.
    • Tom March
      Tom March on 16 Sep 11
       
      Obviously a school leader who dosn't mind being different! Nice to see.
    • Jackie O'Brien
      Jackie O'Brien on 16 Sep 11
       
      You don't make progress by doing the same thing as everyone else!
  • in America that if you worked hard and you showed real grit, that you could be successful,” he said. “Strangely, we’ve now forgotten that. People who have an easy time of things, who get 800s on their SAT’s, I worry that those people get feedback that everything they’re doing is great. And I think as a result, we are actually setting them up for long-term failure.
    • Jackie O'Brien
      Jackie O'Brien on 16 Sep 11
       
      I know that we are actively working with parents to realise that their child does not have to be 'happy' al of the time. Making mistakes, experiencing failure and learning what 'not' to do are valuable aspects of education.
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  • Tom March on 15 Sep 11
     
    Fantastic article highlighting great pedagogy, true leadership and richer measures
Tom March

t r u t h o u t | Lessons From Most Successful Schools Abroad - 0 views

www.truthout.org/032409EDA

Pedagogy Educational Goals Readings

shared by Tom March on 29 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Tom March on 29 Apr 09
     
    Education trends from other nations are gaining cachet as political and educational leaders strive to bring American schools in line with the demands of the 21st-century global economy.
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