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In reply to biehl. Finland has been falling on the PISA tests and on other rankings does not do that well. http://www.economist.com/news/international/2159119
by sien 12y ago
In reply to biehl.
Finland has been falling on the PISA tests and on other rankings does not do that well.
http://www.economist.com/news/international/21591195-fall-former-nordic-education-star-latest-pisa-tests-focusing-interest http://www.economist.com/news/international/21591195-fall-fo...
The answer is clear from the international results. If you want a high performing school have big classes, high stakes tests and loads of repetition like the high performing Asian schools do.
Or you could ponder why with such great schools why developed Asian countries like Korea and Japan don't run rings around the US in, say, software development and if, in the end, average school rankings don't really matter that much.
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoI love how they use Shanghai to represent the whole of China. A few rich cities don't make for very interesting data points. Education in most of Asia is even more dysfunctional than in the states and definitely europe. Even Japan and Korea have mostly horrible schools focused on high stakes testing, outdated teaching methods, and suppressing as much creative thinking as possible.