December 21, 2008
Posted by Jay Livingston
This is just a coincidence, right?
Which countries would you rank the highest in terms of education?
Darling Hammond: Finland ranks the highest generally across the board.
(From a Newsweek interview with “Stanford professor Linda Darling-Hammond [who] has been the brains behind Obama's education policy over the past year as a lead education advisor on the campaign and during the transition.”)
The [survey] results were combined into an index of . . .“sociosexuality” . . . a measure of how sexually liberal people are in thought and behaviour. Most individuals scored between 4 and 65.
The country with the highest rating was Finland, with an average of 51.
(The London Times reporting on a survey of 14,000 people in 48 countries, a project headed by David Schmitt of Bradley University. )
my grandfather, who is finnish/swedish and lives in iowa, sends me newspaper articles on education periodically.
ReplyDeletei laughed at your post because he sent me one from the des moines register this week comparing education in iowa (no slouch in the US) and finland. quite a good read, i couldn't link to it because of a registering/purchase thing but very interesting points about teacher salary, parent involvement, testing, etc.