Reblogged from Bridge Magazine

…Finland, a perennial top performer on PISA, provides a good example of what can be done to achieve educational merit. The Finns have no charters, no vouchers. They do not have a testing obsession like we do. Finnish children are exposed to high-stakes testing a grand total of one time during the entirety of their school experience. They do not evaluate teachers and schools, based upon one high-stakes test given annually. They do not grade their schools A-F. They have strong unions. In a word, they do absolutely nothing that “reformers” in this country endorse. Continue reading…