You know Finland has been getting a lot press lately about how their education system is at or near the top for the past few years and they provide a free and public education all the way through graduate school. We on the other hand languish around the middle of the rankings.
We, as a nation, have been looking at various ways of moving up in those rankings. SCHOOL CHOICE, that's the ticket. A VOUCHER PROGRAM, NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND, CHARTER SCHOOLS, or maybe RACE TO THE TOP (yeah that'll take us there) are ideas that at times have been timely, solutions to close the achievement gap.
These are all FISCAL APPROACHES and the answer we are looking for is not a monetary one. FINLAND is not the economic powerhouse that the UNITED STATES is, in fact, nobody is. What they realize is that it's not the MONEY that has value, it's the EDUCATION. Money can't think, but if you can think, you can get MONEY.
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