You don’t have to go to Finland.
It has been useful to compare the failed policies of the education agenda of the corporate reformers as well as the policies of the Bush and Obama administrations with the successful public schools in Finland.
But you don’t have to go that far.
Michael Winerip makes a comparison to schools right here in the US. Not charters or parochial schools.
It has become fashionable for American educators to fly off to Helsinki to investigate how schools there produce such high-achieving Finns. But for just $69.95 a night, they can stay at the Days Inn in Jacksonville, N.C., and investigate how the schools here on the Camp Lejeune Marine base produce such high-
