{"id":19147,"date":"2010-04-12T02:00:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T02:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc-why_do_finlands_schools_get_the_best_results\/"},"modified":"2010-04-12T02:00:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T02:00:05","slug":"bbc-why_do_finlands_schools_get_the_best_results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19147","title":{"rendered":"BBC&#8211;Why do Finland&#39;s schools get the best results?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year more than 100 foreign delegations and governments visited Helsinki, hoping to learn the secret of their schools&#8217; success.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, Finland&#8217;s pupils scored the highest average results in science and reading in the whole of the developed world. In the OECD&#8217;s exams for 15 year-olds, known as PISA, they also came second in maths, beaten only by teenagers in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t a one-off: in previous PISA tests Finland also came out top.<\/p>\n<p>The Finnish philosophy with education is that everyone has something to contribute and those who struggle in certain subjects should not be left behind.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/programmes\/world_news_america\/8601207.stm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year more than 100 foreign delegations and governments visited Helsinki, hoping to learn the secret of their schools&#8217; success. In 2006, Finland&#8217;s pupils scored the highest average results in science and reading in the whole of the developed world.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19147\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,111,200,457],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-education","category-europe","category-finland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}