Michael Lawrence and Dr. Fabio D'Agostin | Creating Schools…

While many Australian schools have spent the last few decades admiring the old school tie, tightening standardisation and rubrics while chasing NAPLAN and ATAR scores, Finnish educators have been told to study best practices, and then try and improve on these. 

When the GFC occurred in the ’90s, Finnish government cuts in the education budget were applied at the top, rather than in schools and curriculum inspection, and development was handed to teachers. The national school inspectorate was abolished and all assessment of students was left to teachers. 

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