{"id":180,"date":"2004-04-09T22:21:53","date_gmt":"2004-04-09T22:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=180"},"modified":"2004-04-09T22:21:53","modified_gmt":"2004-04-09T22:21:53","slug":"educators_flocking_to_finland_land_of_literate_children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"Educators Flocking to Finland, Land of Literate Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics7.nytimes.com\/images\/2004\/04\/09\/international\/finland.1842.jpg\" height=\"100\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/04\/09\/international\/europe\/09finl.html?ex=1396843200&#038;en=156c7f882b033588&#038;ei=5007&#038;partner=USERLAND\">Lizette Alvarez writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Imagine an educational system where children do not start school until they are 7, where spending is a paltry $5,000 a year per student, where there are no gifted programs and class sizes often approach 30. A prescription for failure, no doubt, in the eyes of many experts, but in this case a description of Finnish schools, which were recently ranked the world&#8217;s best.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Finland&#8217;s Schools: <a href=\"http:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/search?ei=UTF-8&#038;fr=sfp&#038;p=finland%27s+education+system\">Yahoo<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;ie=ISO-8859-1&#038;q=finland%27s+education+system&#038;btnG=Search\">Google<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/s.teoma.com\/search?q=finland%27s+education+system&#038;qcat=1&#038;qsrc=0&#038;Search.x=47&#038;Search.y=8&#038;Search=submit\">Teoma<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alltheweb.com\/search?cat=web&#038;cs=utf8&#038;q=finland%27s+education+system&#038;_sb_lang=pref\">Alltheweb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lizette Alvarez writes: Imagine an educational system where children do not start school until they are 7, where spending is a paltry $5,000 a year per student, where there are no gifted programs and class sizes often approach 30. A prescription for failure, no doubt, in the eyes of many experts, but in this case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}