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🗓️ 27 November 2014
⏱️ 34 minutes
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0:00.0 | I read somebody said it's hard to get into an head school and Finland is getting MIT. |
0:11.4 | That's Joe Klein. |
0:12.4 | He knows a little bit about schools and education and education schools. |
0:17.4 | And I'm now the CEO of Amplify, which is an education technology company started by |
0:22.3 | News Corp. |
0:23.3 | Before that, for a little over eight years, I was a school's chancellor in New York City |
0:28.2 | under Mayor Michael Bloomberg. |
0:30.4 | Klein has rolled his education experience into a new book called Lessons of Hope, How to |
0:34.9 | Fix Our Schools. |
0:36.6 | That Biddy mentioned about Ed schools in Finland. |
0:39.3 | He was citing Amanda Ripley, who wrote a book called The Smartest Kids in the World and |
0:43.6 | How They Got That Was. |
0:44.8 | To get into education college in Finland is like getting into MIT in the United States. |
0:49.8 | And imagine what could follow if that were true here. |
0:54.4 | Imagine what could follow if that were true here. |
0:57.4 | They created a set of expectations brought people into the field and there's nothing |
1:03.0 | like self-fulfill in props. |
1:05.4 | But it's not that hard to get into an education school in the US. |
1:09.3 | Not that hard to become a school teacher. |
1:11.2 | As a result, US teachers are... |
1:14.5 | Well... |
1:15.5 | They're just a little bit below average. |
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