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Re:How LeBron James' new public school is the first of its kind by fhood on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @11:05AM (#17663120)
Agreed. Using Finland as an example is absurd. Finland has a very wealthy, very homogeneous population. Longer school days are designed, in this case, to keep many of these kids in a safe environment for as long as possible.
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Re:How LeBron James' new public school is the first of its kind by moorhosj on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @04:15PM (#17666531)
==Using Finland as an example is absurd. Finland has a very wealthy, very homogeneous population.==

Finland is 21% less wealthy than America on a per capita basis.

Finland GDP per capita - $35,964.77

US GDP per capita - $45,759.46

-http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Finland/Uni...

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Re:How LeBron James' new public school is the first of its kind by ezzzzz on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @05:12PM (#17667042)
Finland has a drastically lower poverty rate, lower income inequality [1] and lower violent crime rate than the United States [2].

This fact, combined with Finland's well-known social safety nets leads to the obvious conclusion that you would be hard pressed to find living conditions like those in the slums of Akron/Cleveland in Finland.

[1]https://data.oecd.org/finland.htm#profile-government [2]http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Finland/Uni...

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Re:How LeBron James' new public school is the first of its kind by moorhosj on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @05:46PM (#17667320)
==This fact, combined with Finland's well-known social safety nets leads to the obvious conclusion that you would be hard pressed to find living conditions like those in the slums of Akron/Cleveland in Finland.==

Isn't it possible that Finland's well-known social safety net is at least partially responsible for the lower poverty, income inequality and violent crime rates?

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Re:How LeBron James' new public school is the first of its kind by toyg on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @06:20PM (#17667601)
It's absolutely the case, no question; but the problem here is that a school model that works in that scenario is unlikely to work in the current American scenario. It's like writing programs for high-level APIs (that will take care of memory, sorting and so on) versus writing programs against the POSIX interface (where you have to basically do everything yourself).
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Re:How LeBron James' new public school is the first of its kind by ezzzzz on Thursday August 02, 2018 @08:29AM (#17670921)
Yes, and I absolutely agree with the the other reply that such a model would be completely ineffective in the type of neighborhoods LeBron's school is targeting. I hope this model is successful because I think it could greatly benefit under-served communities.
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Re:How LeBron James' new public school is the first of its kind by forapurpose on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @05:52PM (#17667365)
> Finland has a ... very homogeneous population

I don't know this to be true or false, but is there any evidence of it? And is there any evidence that it has an effect on educational effectiveness? I wouldn't expect an effect; people learn to read, write and do math in K-12 all over the world.

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