Ezzat Hassan
- Finnish teachers are highly trained and respected professionals, with most holding a master’s degree in education.
- Finland’s education system emphasizes equity over excellence, providing equal opportunities to all students regardless of their background or abilities.
- There is no standardized testing in Finland. Students are graded individually by their teachers, and overall progress is mapped by sampling groups of schools.
Time and time again, American students continually rank near the middle or bottom among industrialized nations when it comes to performance in math and science. The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) which in conjunction with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) routinely releases data which shows that Americans are seriously lagging behind in a number of educational performance assessments.
Despite calls for education reform and a continual lackluster performance on the international scale, not a lot is being done or changing within the educational system. Many private and public schools run on the same antiquated systems and schedules that were once conducive to an agrarian society. The mechanization and rigid assembly-line methods we use today are spitting out ill-prepared worker clones, rudderless adults and an uninformed populace.
To conclude, i think most of the developing educational system should take the finnish system in education was a model for them to follow.
