Andrew Miller at Elephants on Bicycles recently posted information about Finland’s education system that he found in a Wall Street Journal report. The article offers insight as to how Finland’s pubic education system has moved into the top rankings world-wide.
In contrast, yesterday I heard a WOSU broadcast of This American Life that exposes a little known fact about the New York City’s public schools. The Rubber Room as it’s known, is a facility that pays New York City school teachers to do nothing.
Read Andrew’s post then watch the video presented below and compare for yourself.
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[...] Urban In-Fill and Elephants on Bicycles are both blogging about education. Check out their posts, then check out This American Life, where you can hear the story Urban In-Fill refers to, Human Resources. All TAL episodes are available via podcast. This American Life airs at 1 p.m. on Sundays on WOSU 820. [...]
I heard that on NPR too – pretty crazy huh. You’d be amazed at the ways public schools find to waste money and resources. check out my education blog!
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