The author's case is sensible and clearly presented but lacks context for the intended audience of the USA. It's pointless to say that Finland has a unified teacher preparation program, implying that other countries do not. There are in fact uniform teacher training regimes in the USA that are comparable in scale to the one in Finland. The New York City Department of Education has as many students as Finland has. LAUSD isn't much smaller. So instead of asking what lessons we could learn from Finland, would it make as much sense to cherry-pick some successful school districts from within our own country and learn lessons from them? Because that's essentially what you're doing when you use Finland as your exemplar instead of a similar-population area of Europe. How are the schools doing in Slovenia these days?
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