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Finland has a lot of immigrants and refugees. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2011/nov/21/finland-education-immigrant-children https://www.theguardian.co

• 300bps 4y ago
  I wouldn't consider 7.9% of the population as "a lot" of immigrants when compared to the United States being 26%. And immigrants aren't the only issue. There's a lot of racial diversity in the US that just doesn't exist in Finland. And the educational record for immigrants in Finland is not great: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1467598022000008350?journalCode=ceji20 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1467598022000008... And again, Finland's entire population is substantially less than half the population of the US state of Pennsylvania.
• rr808 4y ago
  It still is small. Also Finland's education results have been slipping, likely because of said immigration: "Finland has been displaced from the very top. In the 2012 study, Finland ranked sixth in reading, twelfth in mathematics and fifth in science, while back in the 2003 study Finland was first in both science and reading and second in mathematics." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Finland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Finland