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Thought the reason the Finnish were so successful was that they had opted out of all the new modern ways of teaching in the past 50 years...

• emilfihlman 6y ago
  100%
• jeltz 6y ago
  Yeah, they seem to use a slightly modernized version of how schools used to teach here in Sweden and are hugely successful unlike us. So if they implement this it is more likely that they will make things worse rather than better.
  • netjiro 6y ago
    From what I've seen, the decline in Swedish education started with moving primary education from centralised state control and funding to municipal control and (significantly less) funding. Then accelerated with removing national testing, removal of grading of younger kids, removal of the centralised bell curve grading, the "friskola" reform. Each change is visible in general statistics from the early exams in the university programs if you look at statistics going back to the 60s.
• organicfigs 6y ago
  As someone who used to live in Finland, their "success" is mostly driven by an excellent student:teacher ratio and a phenomenal social services system. Any adult who is struggling through a crisis will be helped by a system that 1) doesn't stigmatize 2) is able to retain talent (because they probably only make 10% less than a software engineer so you have many more capable people interested in it). Conversely, education in America fails for people in low socio-economic conditions primarily because of a lack of these two, not because Finland's found a magical/effective way of teaching an average 10-year-old kid.