Another article (http://finnish-and-pisa.blogspot.com/ http://finnish-and-pisa.blogspot.com/, submitted - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2918684 http://new

Another article (http://finnish-and-pisa.blogspot.com/ http://finnish-and-pisa.blogspot.com/, submitted - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2918684 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2918684) suggests Finish-Ugric languages give Finnish and Estonian schools an edge in PISA results (and education in general). The writing is regular, and vocabulary very simple - think "tear sacs" instead of whatever Latin / Greek / German / French derived term you use in English. I like their right-wing teaching system, which seems to follow the stuff that's got some empirical backing (DI, mastery learning, no retention, etc), but there are other factors.