Finland – School Stories

A Class That Loops Together, Learns Together

March 31, 2016March 15, 2020 - by Jamie Martines

Looping is when teachers stay with the same class of students for more than one year. At Brownsville’s P.S. 446, teachers say it works well for maintaining discipline, and it’s even better for helping them improve as teachers.

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Exploding America’s myth that education is the anecdote to poverty

May 13, 2014May 13, 2014 - by Peggy Barmore

Matt Bruenig writes for Salon that “fixation on education as a solution to poverty, inequality or any other distributional problem is totally wrongheaded.”