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Finnish students now call teachers by their first names, but unlike what one might think, this is not causing any confusion about who is in charge of the classroom. Sarras explains that the friendly relationship that Finnish teachers have with their students translates into a more respectful, comfortable learning experiences, and a few students feel the need to act out and disturb a classroom. Finns are particularly interested in closing the gender gap that still exists in the country's reading results even though Finnish boys perform better than students in most OECD countries and addressing the needs of a growing immigration population.
Some Finnish educators also fear that the PISA results are not a true reflection of Finnish students' academic ability. They claim that the surveys pay too much attention to external factors, such as students' home life, library use, and school lunch, and not enough on their deep understanding of the subject matter.
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I heard this complaint from many mathematics teachers in particular. However, perhaps the Finns continue to attain much international attention not only due to their PISA success but also their realistic interpretation of the results and commitment to continuous improvement.
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Many other industrialized countries, including Germany and the United Kingdom, have also received disappointing PISA results, and many of them have began to look to Finland to learn from its assessment success. As principal Poikela observed, Finland can only go down from the top, but right now, Finland is at the top-and the rest of the world is taking note.
Whatever the true reasons behind Finland's assessment success are, I believe that Finland can serve as an informative and interesting point of comparison and model to educators, parents, and students worldwide. Review of Mark Munger's Suomalaiset: The Strike of The Great Cloquet Fire. These are some of the raw materials Mark Munger uses in his new historical novel Suomalaiset: People of the Marsh , creating a fascinating, colorful portrait of Finnish immigrant life, and death, in Northern Minnesota. The novel's prologue, set on board of the Titanic, introduces the reader to ordinary working class Finns seeking a better life in a new country.
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Only some of them survive, and none lives to become the novel's hero. Yet, the opening narration connects effectively with the rest of the plot. A letter written to one of the passengers introduces the novel's main character, a young Finnish immigrant named Anders Alhomaki, as a possible job connection in Duluth, Minnesota. While the passengers on the Titanic imagine a better life, the letter makes "only the promise of possibilities. When the story moves to Duluth, Minnesota, the September setting forecasts further uncertainty and disaster. In "the fickle climate of Northern Minnesota," a body is found hanging from a birch tree.
There is no explanation for the Finnish immigrant's death, only speculation and hints. Who was this man?
What really happened to him, and to all Finnish immigrants of his time? While some of the characters are based on real people, Munger's closing notes emphasize, "This is a story.
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The indefinable line between fact and fiction makes the reader thirsty for details, for connections, for deeper understanding of the past. Meant as a compliment, Suomalaiset is in many ways an ordinary story of ordinary immigrant Finns, whose personalities and lives seem very familiar and real to Finnish American readers. Initially, some of the main characters seem stereotyped, such as Alhomaki, whose "taciturn nature" often forces him into silence.
However, anyone familiar with Finns knows stubborn Finns. I suspect many readers smile in recognition, for example, when the stoic Alhomaki, fighting in the World War I, laconically observes, "Fifteen below feels like fifteen below. Suomalaiset will undoubtedly inspire many readers to examine old photographs, maps, and other historical artifacts in search of their ancestors', and consequently their own, history and identity.
Suomalaiset , however, is much more than a catalog of items found in historical archives. The novel is a complex work of literary art. It is a love story, a novel of self-development, and a tale of heroism.
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Set in the turbulent times of labor unrest, racial tension, gender inequality, natural disasters, and the Great War, the novel tells passionate, and often desperate, stories of personal and social struggle. Many immigrants' dreams of employment, love, and a better life turn to near, or complete, impossibilities. Suomalaise t paints several immigrant portraits, each framed by opposing social forces. The novel's hero, Anders Alhomaki, finds himself without a job after his name is associated with the Strike of His working class background also prevents him from marrying his true love, Elin Gustaafson, a daughter of a wealthy Finnish lawyer.
Forced to assume a new identity, as Andrew Maki, he soon finds new employment and love but withdraws, much like Henry David Thoreau, to a cabin on a small lake to contemplate "his position, his place in America. Munger uses Maki's passion for boxing as an effective metaphor for his lifetime of battles--with love, the upper class, the enemy in World War I, even himself. One of the most intriguing sub-plots examines young Elin Gustaafson's struggle to balance her affluent, conservative upper class upbringing with her passion for the working class and the Suffragettes.
Another juxtaposes Onni Kinkkonen's dreams of a happy married life with the punishment he faces when accused of evading military service in the Great War.