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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (175487)11/7/2011 8:24:59 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (3) of 542014
 
Why do Finnish schools do so well? Because they have a tiny homogeneous society where everyone is fairly well educated, and there is a universal respect for education, and they have excellent social services to support the dysfunctional. None of that applies in the US. No big mystery about Finland's success.

If you recall the tracking fracas in the schools, you will understand the power of homogeneous classes. It is so easy to teach groups of similar young people, and very hard to teach classes with many different children- especially when some of the children are not fluent in the native language being taught. That's an education killer. Fins are fluent in Finnish, and they don't have an immigrant population to speak of.

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They don't like immigrants, and they don't have many, so their schools remain "pure". That makes it easier to teach.
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