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The U.S. education system is in crisis. Now’s the time to reinvent it
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The problem of how to educate the country’s more than 73 million children during the pandemic has given us a once-in-a-generation opportunity to make schools more equitable. Will we seize it?
By Julia Herbst and Katharine Schwab
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Why Finland has the best education system in the world. This is how education in Montana should be taught. Let’s start improving the system today.
Ninety-three percent of Finns graduate from academic or vocational high schools, 17.5 percentage points higher than the United States, and 66 percent go on to higher education, the highest rate in the European Union. Yet Finland spends about 30 percent less per student than the United States.
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Recommended TED Talk – Do schools kill creativity? Sir Ken Robinson
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
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