"The smartest kids in the world and how they got that way". It's a book on Finland, Poland, and South Korean educational systems.
If I remember correctly, Finland only trains teachers at the elite colleges. It would essentially be, in the US, teachers can only be trained at Ivy League schools. And it is a 6 year program. One of the books main points was that teacher quality, not money spent per student, is hugely important.
At least in the book, Finland doesn't haves tiered schooling. No remedial or no advanced. But more funds and resources are allocated to bringing up those that are struggling. Here in the US we use property taxes to keep schools partially segregated and give more money to schools that already have a lot of money.
It also discussed how Finland has a lot of immigrants coming in that don't speak Finnish. Getting those students language proficiency is a priority.
Also, sports are far less of a priority.
There are other points made in the book. It was definitely a good read.
Won't happen here. Making highly selective teaching colleges would be discrimination. Funding schools more equally (distributing money away from affluent homogenous public schools) would he worse than socialism.
If I remember correctly, Finland only trains teachers at the elite colleges. It would essentially be, in the US, teachers can only be trained at Ivy League schools. And it is a 6 year program. One of the books main points was that teacher quality, not money spent per student, is hugely important.
At least in the book, Finland doesn't haves tiered schooling. No remedial or no advanced. But more funds and resources are allocated to bringing up those that are struggling. Here in the US we use property taxes to keep schools partially segregated and give more money to schools that already have a lot of money.
It also discussed how Finland has a lot of immigrants coming in that don't speak Finnish. Getting those students language proficiency is a priority.
Also, sports are far less of a priority.
There are other points made in the book. It was definitely a good read.
Won't happen here. Making highly selective teaching colleges would be discrimination. Funding schools more equally (distributing money away from affluent homogenous public schools) would he worse than socialism.