Finland has ranked within top 3 in the world
for International Student Assessment in reading, math, and science literacy every year for the past decade.
The U.S. has never breached top 15...
...Yet in Finland there are no high stakes tests and teachers are rarely evaluated...
...The puzzle: why Finland?
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Find out at World Partners in Education's documentary film screening of:
THE FINLAND PHENOMENON
When: 3/2, SATURDAY 5 pm
Where: Haldeman 041
Panera will be served!
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About the film:
Documentary film maker, Bob Compton (of "2 Million Minutes" acclaim), along with Harvard researcher, Dr. Tony Wagner (author of the
best-seller "The Global Achievement Gap") decided to find out. The result is "The Finland Phenomenon: Inside the World's Most Surprising School System," an up-close and analytical film about building a world-class education which thoroughly prepares all students
for careers and citizenship in the 21st century. In the 60 minute film, Tony Wagner gives us an inside look at the world's finest education system and reveals surprising factors accounting for Finland's #1 ranking.