Teemu Leinonen visits Shanghgai and finds an education system that is much like Finland's. Not surprisingly, both are at the top of the recent PISA evaulations of educational outcomes. "Both emphasis equality, open tracks, teacher training, as well as teachers and schools autonomy. All this is done by combining these priorities with fact-based centralized planning. In this kind of system equality does not mean only equality of opportunity but also an attempt to invest resources to those individuals and schools that are recognized to lag behind." He notes, "The system is not rewarding those who are performing well with extra resources, but rather leveling the differences in the performance of the different units."
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