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More importantly, the thing about Finland is not mainly the teachers or the school system - it's that the students are white. _White_ American students perform
by Melchizedek 12y ago
More importantly, the thing about Finland is not mainly the teachers or the school system - it's that the students are white. _White_ American students perform about as well as Finnish (almost all white) students.
- jpatokal 12y agoAnd by remarkable coincidence, Finland's GDP per capita is roughly equivalent to GDP per capita for white Americans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_household_income https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_U... Maybe, just maybe, the differentiating factor is poverty, not race?
- Melchizedek 12y agoNo, white (and asian and jewish) students perform much better than for instance black students from equally wealthy families.