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Didn't Romney learn that Competitiveness in schools doesn't work well from Finland?
Romney still thinks education is a competition. Finland cut the all competitiveness of their system and is thriving.
10 Answers
- ingsoc1Lv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
Nope he didn't learn it when his Mass school voucher plan was was a disaster either
- Reason EnforcerLv 69 years ago
Milwaukee Public Schools are up from 52% graduation rate. http://www5.milwaukee.k12.wi.us/dept/superintenden...
Illinois public schools have a dropout rate of 11%. Woooo public education!
- 9 years ago
This is America. Not Finland.. Our educational, economic, and social systems are not by any means identical
- ?Lv 69 years ago
Education is a competition. It is used to weed out those who have what it takes to be successful to ones that don't.
Good luck getting into medical school, law school, pharmacy school, optometry school, even a masters or PhD program, without a competitive drive.
You need a competitive edge and passion to get to those places.
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- ?Lv 79 years ago
Thriving? Their economy is ready to crash. Their young people leave in droves. Yes, they do extremely well on international comparison tests.
- d.k.Lv 69 years ago
QUICK!!
Name 6 Finnish scientists/businessmen/mathematicians that we've all heard of.
Come On --- Hop to it!!
- LanLv 69 years ago
Doesn't matter here...we still number one in producing incompetent and lazy workers.
- Anonymous9 years ago
move to finland.....