When you combine the top 10% with a 12 to 1 student to teacher ratio, great things can happen. This seems more like the US private school model. I'm surprised

When you combine the top 10% with a 12 to 1 student to teacher ratio, great things can happen. This seems more like the US private school model. I'm surprised they didn't mention that Finnish students start school at 7 years old. [1] I would be interested to find out about the dispersion of the Finnish results. Do they huddle around the mean, or are there very positive outliers? I don't have any personal data points, and haven't seen anything published on this. [1] http://www.thedailyriff.com/articles/the-finland-phenomenon-inside-the-worlds-most-surprising-school-system-588.php http://www.thedailyriff.com/articles/the-finland-phenomenon-...