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Originally Posted by Wolven
Truthfully, they are closer to the goal than Alberta has ever been. Which is certainly something to aspire to, especially by making the need for private schooling obsolete by building the public education system up so strongly. It does make me interested to get into the nuts and bolts of what their few private schools are seeking to accomplish based no how the system is structured.
Before one could say that they promote the Finnish approach to private schools, you would need to assert that you are following how the Finnish handle public schools.
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Without a deep understanding and/or first hand experience of the Finnish system it is tough to accurately evaluate what they are doing but a few things stand out to me that are encouraging which are that their teachers are required to have Masters degrees and they are highly valued within the society and as a result teachers take pride in their position even though they are apparently undercompensated within the public sector in Finland. They appear to have a lot of autonomy in their roles which is something that I support.
Some of the recent outcomes are concerning within the system though as reported here:
https://okm.fi/en/-/the-bildung-revi...present-moment
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Decline in achieved learning outcomes
Proficiency in reading and mathematics strengthened in Finland from the 1960s to the 1990s, reaching the international top in the learning outcomes assessments conducted in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Internationally speaking, the decline in achieved learning outcomes, which began in the early 2000s, has been exceptionally rapid in Finland, and the drop in reading and mathematics proficiency observed in several studies corresponds to the learning attained in one year – even two years, according to some research data. Despite the notable decline, young people’s achieved learning outcomes are still good in international comparison, as indicated by many international assessments.
Differences in learning outcomes related to social background have become more pronounced than earlier. Moreover, the differences between genders are exceptionally large from an international perspective, and have continued to increase in the 21st century.
Decrease in the level of education
The Finnish population’s level of education has been decreasing for a few decades. Those born in 1978 are the most highly educated age group. Today’s 30-year-olds are unlikely to ever reach a level of education corresponding to that of people born in 1978. However, the favourable development in the initiation of higher education studies, seen in the latter part of the 2010s, has led to those under the age of 28 being more highly educated in 2020 than in 2010. It looks as if the age groups born in the 1990s may end up having a higher level of education than those born at the end of the 1970s.
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