tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2707703066300530859.post6073815815582357744..comments2024-03-15T02:09:23.712-06:00Comments on for the love of learning: Sahlberg's ten big ideas on FinlandAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15047405950514440042noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2707703066300530859.post-1900270920393354732011-11-09T08:51:40.138-07:002011-11-09T08:51:40.138-07:00My take:
It's a nice myopic view of a small, h...My take:<br />It's a nice myopic view of a small, homogeneous country that got their act together. It would be lovely if we could be like them, but we are not. The US is something more creative, interesting and risky - an experiment that has been going on for over 200 years and continues to this day. Sahlberg's list of ideals is not something new that Finland discovered, we've been experimenting with these ideas it seems like forever. Rather than criticize our deficiencies in these areas we should be concentrating more on the many success stories we have in this country of how school communities are achieving these 10 big ideas because of our unique, local way we run our schools. If it were possible to put all these "points of light" communities together in one geographic area it be would much, much larger than Finland where their entire population could live comfortably in an area the size of New York City. We need to promote these US style of education success stories better otherwise we become complacent and start to believe that all or most of our schools need to be revamped according to some foreign model that is probably impossible to do. <br /><br />Do we really want to be first in world in math and science like in Seoul, Korea? What price will we pay to become that? Take a look at Zareed Fakara's GPS video segment on Seoul's schools "Education in South Korea" <br /><br />http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/05/gps-special-fixing-education/<br /><br />and judge for yourself. And if that's not enough, then watch the documentary "Race to Nowhere" <br /><br />http://www.racetonowhere.com/<br /><br />http://www.racetonowhere.com/trailers-clips<br /><br />which makes it all too clear.Ihor Charischakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09311015215728634606noreply@blogger.com