Making Clear What Works: The Best Talk on the Finland Phenomenon Yet and What It Means For US
Education is a big conversation. The narrative is filled with buzz words: teacher accountability, AYP, NCLB, high-stakes tests, charter schools, and on and on. Sometimes it gets so heady and academic that I believe that no one truly understands what is being said anymore. The conversation has moved so far away from the basic interaction of adults and children trying to do their best together, that to me it is often meaningless.
Thankfully, every once in awhile (and far more often here on the Co-op) people come along and make sense of
