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Finland has vastly improved in reading, math and science literacy over the past decade in large part because its teachers are trusted to do whatever it takes to turn young lives around. This 13-year-old, Besart Kabashi, received something akin to royal tutoring.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/why-are-finlands-schools-successful-49859555/?no-ist
Sweden's For-Profit Private School Experiment Is Turning Into A Disaster
"I've often said it's been easier to start an independent school than set up a hot-dog stand," said Eva-Lis Siren, head of Lararforbundet, Sweden's biggest teachers union.
The Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) benchmark Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) study paints a bleak picture, with Sweden now ranking below Russia in maths.
A quarter of 15-year-old boys cannot understand a basic factual text, said Anna Ekstrom, head of the NAE, while an NAE study last year showed a growing gap between students, with more and more failing to qualify for secondary education.
http://www.businessinsider.com/swedens-education-system-failures-2013-12
Privatizing Schools to Prison, we should fear the power of Corporate Greed. We have lost are moral guidance, by law corporations must make profit number one, not education or for that matter moral guidance with humans in prison, this is dangerous to are country.
clarice
(5,504 posts)"I've often said it's been easier to start an independent school than set up a hot-dog stand," said Eva-Lis Siren, head of Lararforbundet, Sweden's biggest teachers union."
AwareOne
(404 posts)to point out that its to easy to open a "school", easier and less regulated than a hot dog stand. Did you read the article? This same thing, corporate schools for profit, is happening all across the US now.
peabody
(445 posts)clarice
(5,504 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)What specifically leads you to believe that?
clarice
(5,504 posts)hunter
(38,339 posts)The relationships between students and teachers in a classroom are very complex and no two classes are the same.
That's why education following corporate business models won't work.
The teacher is a professional. Every class of students requires a different menu, and every student requires individual attention.
There are also many differing but equally effective styles of teaching. Among the best teachers I remember, some were very structured in their approach, others were able to "go with the flow," generally reflecting the personality of the teacher and the students as a group.
If children leave school literate and numerate, with good critical thinking skills and an enthusiasm for any science, art, language, or technology, then the school has been successful.