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Finnish Education Chief: 'We Created a School System Based on Equality' An interview with the country's minister of education, Krista Kiuru Finnish education often seems paradoxical to outside observers because it appears to break a lot of the rules we take for granted. Finnish children don’t begin school until age 7. They have more recess, shorter school hours than many U.S. children do (nearly 300 fewer hours per year in elementary school), and the lightest homework load of any industrialized nation. There are no gifted programs, almost no private schools, and no high-stakes national standardized tests. Yet over the past decade Finland has consistently performed among the top nations on the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a standardized test given to 15-year olds in 65 nations and territories around the world. Finland’s school children didn’t always excel. Finland built its excellent, efficient, and equitable educational system in a few decades from...

http://regional.kompas.com/read/2014/04/11/1643342/Gagal.Caleg.Demokrat.Minta.Kompor.Gasnya.Dikembalikan PAREPARE, KOMPAS.com  — Karena sudah yakin tak bakal lolos, Andi Farida Soewandi, caleg DPRD asal Demokrat di Kota Parepare, Sulawesi Selatan, meminta kembali kompor gas yang pernah dibagikan ke puluhan warga di Kelurahan Batang Rappe, Kecamatan Bacukiki, tiga hari sebelum hari pencoblosan. Zaenal, salah seorang warga, mengemukakan, kompor dari tim caleg gagal tersebut diterimanya dengan kesepakatan bahwa dia harus mencoblos caleg tersebut pada hari pencoblosan. "Padahal saya coblos caleg itu. Tapi tidak puas dan mengharuskan saya dengan istri ikut coblos caleg yang sama. Lah bagaimana, kita juga sudah terima pemberian dari caleg lain, jadi kami bagilah suara. Apalagi tidak ada perjanjian harus lebih satu suara," katanya, Jumat (11/4/2014). Zaenal mengaku, saat kompor gas tersebut ditarik, dia tengah melayani pelanggannya yang hendak minum kopi. "Saya b...

https://desertgardenmontessori.org/what-americans-keep-ignoring-about-finlands-school-success/ DEC 29 2011, 3:00 PM ET  299 The Scandinavian country is an education superpower because it values equality more than excellence. Sergey Ivanov/Flickr Everyone agrees the United States needs to improve its education system dramatically, but how? One of the hottest trends in education reform lately is looking at the stunning success of the West’s reigning education superpower, Finland. Trouble is, when it comes to the lessons that Finnish schools have to offer, most of the discussion seems to be missing the point. The small Nordic country of Finland used to be known — if it was known for anything at all — as the home of Nokia, the mobile phone giant. But lately Finland has been attracting attention on global surveys of quality of life –  Newsweek  ranked it number one last year — and Finland’s national education system has been receiving particular ...

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662826/frog-design-the-four-secrets-of-playtime-that-foster-creative-kids Our world is increasingly filled with play that makes kids passive consumers instead of active creators. Here's how we can change that. 14 Notes 40 Pin 6 Plus 868 Tweet 1.4k Like 175 Share This is the second post in a new series , produced by Frog Design, drawn from their publication, Design Mind. The theme of the current issue -- from which this essay is drawn -- is "And Now the Good News." It presents ideas flowing from the most recent TED Global conference. I still remember an early job interview ...

http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000024 Citation: Moreno E, Gutiérrez J-M (2008) Ten Simple Rules for Aspiring Scientists in a Low-Income Country. PLoS Comput Biol 4(5): e1000024. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000024 Published: May 30, 2008 Copyright: © 2008 Moreno, Gutiérrez. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: No funding was received for the work presented. Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Being a scientist entails a common set of characteristics. Admiring nature and having concern for social issues; possessing a strong academic background, team work abilities, honesty, discipline, skepticism, communication skills, competitiveness, ability to accept and gi...

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