High Performing school systems included, and need little oversight; The real cash - cow in the lower performing schools; comes with time - tested 3 - step plan to transition from parents / local municipalities to investor - control (videos, handouts and materials for quick learning curve of «education field»); lucrative and low maintenance pay - off down the road.
Even in the early grades most American schools have been coerced into using curriculum - driven instructional systems in which teachers are expected to «cover» long lists of content expectations, far more in a year than any of
the high performing school systems around the world.
Getting back to good old Finland though, it's funny, when you read Finish policy expert Pasi Sahlberg's book, Finnish Lessons, on how the Finns developed
a high performing schools system it's hard to find the word «data.»
Furthermore,
the highest performing school systems in the world, according to the PISA tests, are comprehensive.
If I am recalling correctly, a recent report by the McKinsey and Co. found that the world's
highest performing school systems, e.g. Finland, are using relatively few or no tests to determine the educational system's effectiveness; contrast this with our emphasis on testing, testing, testing.
(Actually, many practices of
these high performing school systems are enumerated in the above mentioned McKinsey report.)
It makes me wonder what other differences there might be between
those high performing school systems and our low performing school system, and why.
CWC Kansas City expects that by the end of the first charter term in 2021, we will be one of
the highest performing school systems in Kansas City.
It's popular to compare U.S. student achievement to that of Finland, a country with one of
the highest performing school systems in the world.