Why are Finland's schools so much better than ours?

10/10/2007 - 6:30pm
10/10/2007 - 8:00pm
Etc/GMT-4

The head of Nokia, one of the richest guys in the world, sends his kid to the local public school.

What's up with that?

Join us as we talk about why it is the world's richest nation (ours) still has some pretty crummy public schools. Is it low funding, low expectations, an over-powerful teachers' union or poor parenting that's to blame? What are our best choices to improve our schools?

Bill Brazell will kick off the discussion, taking Finland as foil - and seeing if it leads us to any answers.

where:
location to be figured out
state:
New York
host:
Julia Kamin
contact:
julia@citizenjoe.org
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