Jack Covey on Checker Finn vs. Finland
Reader Jack Covey, a teacher in Los Angeles, sent the following comment to me:
First, watch this clip from Michael Moore about
schools in Finland:
Now, read Education Next on the same topic, in
the context of a book review by Cherker Finn.
Here’s the ending of Chester Finn’s “Stick with GERM”
review of Past Sahsberg’s new book, and his
argument that “play” hurts poor kids, but it’s fine
for middle class kids (and presumably upper class
kids as well).
He says we’re “bizarrely and cruelly” damaging
those poor kids when U.S. schools “model themselves
on a charming small country in northern Europe
(it’s Finn vs. Finns, I guess)
CHESTER FINN:
