this seems like such a radical proposition.
why is that?
why has this part of the discussion receded so far into the back ground that it's become inaudible?
it's time to start talking a lot louder about equality in education again. i don't think we can afford to drop it.
read the entire article here.
and here's a teaser:
"It is possible to create equality. And perhaps even more important -- as a challenge to the American way of thinking about education reform -- Finland's experience shows that it is possible to achieve excellence by focusing not on competition, but on cooperation, and not on choice, but on equity.
The problem facing education in America isn't the ethnic diversity of the population but the economic inequality of society, and this is precisely the problem that Finnish education reform addressed. More equity at home might just be what America needs to be more competitive abroad."
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