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Michael Hynes

Michael Hynes

Michael Hynes is father of five children and superintendent of New York State’s Patchogue-Medford School District on Long Island, a district of 8,500 students, over half of whom are economically disadvantaged.

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OPINION: Can this 12-step program from Finland aid U.S. education?

Michael HynesAvatar photo by Michael Hynes and William Doyle November 19, 2018March 30, 2020

We are two American public-school dads who just returned from a fact-finding trip through Finland. We wanted to see what the United States could learn from an education system that consistently receives top marks from UNICEF, the OECD and the World Economic Forum. Why should we bother to learn from a small country of just […]

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