Finland has become a mecca for miracle-seeking educators, writes Sam Chaltain on Letters from the Future (of Learning). Teaching is an elite profession: Less than one in 10 applicants for teacher education is accepted.

He visited schools “marked by an orderly, active hum, the kind that emerges only when everyone knows one’s role, responsibility and contribution.”

[Not much room for Weingarten charlatans there. It’ll never fly here. ~ Beege]