American Public Education VS Public Education of Finland
When asked who has the best education programs around the world, who is the first thought? At one time the United States was easily always said to be the top of everything. Today however, the United States does not even make the top ten in the education standings. In fact according to a chart from Pearson website during “[2012 and 2014 the United States ranked 17 and 14]”. When the US is compared to Finland who in the Pearson chart “[ranked 1 and 5]”, it makes the population wonder how the small country of Finland accomplished it. For in instance, perhaps the simple notion that Finland smaller size allows the education system to run efficiently while the United States vastness interferes. On the other hand Finland’s success might be because there united funding, everyone’s access to good schools, and less significance towards standardized testing.
It is well known that the United States is the third largest county in the world, and it is because of this that the schools are funding is a problem. In the US each state …show more content…
Accepting that education is a mixture of different learning methods to better improve one intellect. One of these methods is standardized testing, regrettably the United States seems favor this method so much it over uses it. Most of the United States seems to agree that standardized testing is important, it is so important that is the student do well in the tests the school or teacher might get extra money and reputation. Because of this the educational purpose is lost, and the schedule for learning is structured around how well one passes a test. On the contrast “The [Finnish] curricula are very much focused on critical thinking and problem solving, project-based learning, and learning to learn” (Tung). They put less emphases on test and instead focus on the actual process of learning the
When asked who has the best education programs around the world, who is the first thought? At one time the United States was easily always said to be the top of everything. Today however, the United States does not even make the top ten in the education standings. In fact according to a chart from Pearson website during “[2012 and 2014 the United States ranked 17 and 14]”. When the US is compared to Finland who in the Pearson chart “[ranked 1 and 5]”, it makes the population wonder how the small country of Finland accomplished it. For in instance, perhaps the simple notion that Finland smaller size allows the education system to run efficiently while the United States vastness interferes. On the other hand Finland’s success might be because there united funding, everyone’s access to good schools, and less significance towards standardized testing.
It is well known that the United States is the third largest county in the world, and it is because of this that the schools are funding is a problem. In the US each state …show more content…
Accepting that education is a mixture of different learning methods to better improve one intellect. One of these methods is standardized testing, regrettably the United States seems favor this method so much it over uses it. Most of the United States seems to agree that standardized testing is important, it is so important that is the student do well in the tests the school or teacher might get extra money and reputation. Because of this the educational purpose is lost, and the schedule for learning is structured around how well one passes a test. On the contrast “The [Finnish] curricula are very much focused on critical thinking and problem solving, project-based learning, and learning to learn” (Tung). They put less emphases on test and instead focus on the actual process of learning the