that we are not considered a “Super Power” is our educational system. There is no denying that the American educational system needs to be revamped and improved; however, the question is how to do it? Well, the answers could very well come from a small Nordic country called Finland. In the past year, the Finnish educational system has been praised because their students are turning out some of the highest test scores in the world! Finnish fame was documented in a survey called the PISA survey that
A Better System: Finland vs. United States Education System The American education has tried to make recent changes to accommodate higher education and learning by implementing Common Core Standards. According to “The Common Core State Standards” magazine by Allison Jones and Jaqueline King, “Common Core Standards were created to ensure that all students graduate from high school with the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed in college, career, and life…” (Jones and King 37). Although the common
Every year, American teachers discover that the youth have a 5D relationship with their schools: dissatisfied, disengaged, disaffected, disrespectful, and disruptive. In this prolific source of educational substances, the paucity of satisfaction of the students and the predilections of the teachers militate in some measure against a just valuation being accorded to such researches. “Policy makers remain oblivious to the fact that ‘kids are not what they used to be,’” and in order to re-engage the
The Finnish Model will work well in reforming the U. S. because it provides equal education and opportunity to everybody. In the country of Finland, “there were no high-tech, interactive white boards in her [Kim’s] classroom…no police officer in the hallway” (p. 83). This suggests that these students do not need fancy equipment or armed protection to be the smartest kids in the world. In addition, the Finnish yearn for everyone to be successful despite their circumstances at home, and one way they
The Finnish Model will work well on reforming the U. S. because it provides equal education and opportunity for everybody. In the country of Finland, “there were no high-tech, interactive whiteboards in her [Kim’s] classroom…no police officer in the hallway” (p. 83). This suggests that these students do not need fancy equipment or armed protection to be the smartest kids in the world. In addition, the Finnish want everyone to be successful despite their circumstances at home, and one way they do
United States education current day and can offer lessons for the United States and others in search of a working effective school system. The recent PISA study shows that, while the US had made some slight improvements, it is falling behind from many other established countries in the ability of its childhood and adolescence education. The country isn’t failing, but it is still in many cases becoming
Upon consideration of the education crisis that currently is the United States’ educational system there have developed intangible amounts of controversy, each one in itself claiming to have solved the problem or to have identified what truly is wrong with it. The most strained trend of these controversies is the view on school system policy, policy being what makes a school system unique also is claimed to be the big issue of the U.S. However, in the current state of this country in dire need of
While education in America has stagnated, Finnish students are demonstrating impressive academic growth. This surprising trend leads experts to question how the tiny country could out perform the wealthiest nation of all. When observing the United States’ school system, however, the permeation of competitive ideology becomes evident. Ironically, America should abandon its competition-based education system if American students are to compete with Finnish students whose country employs an innovative
As one of the building blocks to a successful career, education can, and should, be viewed as one of the most important experiences any person will undergo in his or her lifetime. It leads people down a path of discovery in order to help them establish what they want to pursue for the rest of their lives. However, without professional, experienced educators and effective teaching methods, students can never expect to reach their full potential. For this reason, legislatures from all countries should
The best choice of entry for Finnish Schools International is to seek a local investor in every country it seeks to expand to while using licensing as the market entry mode, which will be critical in matters involving the procurement of local licenses in the country/countries it chooses to operate in, such as from the Ministry of Education of the country. Seeking a local investor is very important because every country has different rules, laws, and ethnic beliefs to abide to, so there is nothing