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yummyfajitas
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Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes
If it's so easy to copy, how come no one else in the world has actually managed to do it?
eru
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Some parts of Germany now rank as well as the Finnish average in the PISA tests. (And Singapore ranks pretty well, too, but that was not a result of an effort spurred on by the testing.)
yummyfajitas
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So do some parts of the US. Ethnic subgroups of the US with similar ethnicity to Singapore also rank quite well.
http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-well-do-above-...
nawitus
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One reason is that education politics are extremely conservative.
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