The Finnish Miracle-source:http://www.greatschools.org/students/2453-finland-education.gs?page=all
I enjoy the simplicity in Finnish Culture,and I incorporate this into my teaching and tutoring pedagogical practices. I wish my kids could go to school in Finland. I have been teaching in public schools(College, Community College, High School, etc.) of all types for the last 12 years, and have repeatedly witnesses a sad but steady decline due to the elements listed in the article below. Our US educational system's failure to progress, or to research, learn and apply the practices of successful educational systems like Finland, is one of the many reasons our current educational system is failing, along with all the politics, bureaucracy, and just plain disrespect of professional educators (pay, teaching responsibilities, administrators enabling students to disregard instructor's rules concerning respect, student cell phones usage,etc.)
My concern with the results of the stress, competition, socioeconomic status, and other dividing factors that are such a huge part of US schools, lies in the people it affects the most: the students. The students attending schools in our country that are not meeting the educational needs of progressive students in a very, very, fast moving, progressive, technologically fueled egotistical, and ever-changing place known as america . I don't want to mislead others that I am a total cynic, but one thing I see in the great schools in our country is progression , and the modeling and teaching of adaptability. Educational progression is responsible for the
