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Finland’s Crisis Classroom

A bill before Finland’s parliament asks what schools owe children when a power failure or other emergency upends the ordinary school day.

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Odd Inge Teige
Nov 14

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The Constitutional Law Committee put a school preparedness bill on its November 12 agenda. The proposal, submitted by the Finnish government on October 8, would allow temporary changes to classes during a serious disruption. Older pupils could learn from home when necessary. Preschoolers, children in grades one through th…

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