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: The Buck Stops Here

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

Pasi Sahlberg has an op-ed in the Boston Globe making the following claim: What could the United States learn from the Finns? First, reconsider those policies that advocate choice and competition as the key drivers of educational improvement. None of the best-performing education systems relies primarily on them. Indeed, the Finnish experience shows that consistent focus on equity and cooperation ? not choice and competition ? can lead to an education system where all children learn well. The weasel word (or term) in the above is "relies primarily," because it certainly isn't true that none of the best-performing education systems offer school choice. Many of them do. Consider Hong Kong, the Netherlands, and Belgium, all of which are significantly above the OECD average for the most recent PISA scores in reading, math, and science...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on December 27, 2010 (boomark / email).