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Education: How They Do it in Sweden

submitted by rottenseed

1 decade 5 years 5 months 1 week ago

This is a documentary about the very different approach Sweden takes toward education. Very interesting and progressive ideas being implemented. It's a shame that in the US, we are teaching to standardized tests. That is, our evaluations of our students' success is how well they take a test that we train them for.

Here is a link to the TIMSS report highlighting the placement of several sample grade levels for different countries in terms of math and science: http://nces.ed.gov/pubs99/1999081.pdf

As you can see, Sweden starts off slow, but at the higher grade levels, are at the top of the charts.

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Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 10:57pm PST - promote requested by blankfist.

I don't know why, but I thought most countrys did it like this. =P I from Sweden btw.

omnistegan says...

I've often thought that Sweden would be somewhere I would like to live, especially if I were to ever have children.
I struggled in high school, and now, 4 years after I was supposed to graduate, I'm still trying to fix my mistakes. I've often considered that if the school system I grew up with was different, that things would have turned out better.
I guess I can't do much more than speculate however.

What I find especially telling is that an english documentary in Sweden doesn't need to use subtitles.

looks like the montessori school i went to...and the one my kid goes to.. in tx... except for its subsized and affordable. thats the part that impresses me. i pay $155/wk for my kids montessori... single mom, 2 kids... got a second job and a pell grant to pay for it.

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