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"If you look at Finland... paying their teachers well and who aren't getting results."

I'd been given to understand Finland is generally regarded as one of the better education systems in the world.

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You could very well be right. My point was the authors' conclusion didn't match their underlying data. So the validity of their underlying data didn't come into play.

> I'd been given to understand Finland is generally regarded as one of the better education systems in the world.

Of course Finland (and most Northern European countries) has another advantage - they're teaching Finns.

Pretty much anything you do in those monocultures "works". So, their success with any program tells us nothing about how the same program will work in a cultures where things do fail, let alone diverse environments.

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