they're not even really socialist - the WSJ has done a national economic freedom ranking thing and finland ranks higher than the US (which is a capitalist country obviously) in business freedom, trade freedom and monetary freedom - if they were truly socialistic, they would rank extremely low in these categories. And also, if finalnd was a US state, it would rank as the 5th poorest state, which to me doesn't really seem like they're doing all TOO well. Go ahead and hand me your Bernie Sanders downvote but im just saying
"Socialism is a form of communism".
Not modern socialism anyway. France is officially a socialist country right now, and quite frankly, there's nothing quite Red in our politics. Just an inherited protective social system, that is slowly crumbling.
http://www.indexmundi.com/finland/demographics_profile.html When a country has a population as close to homogeneous and young as this one, education is easier. Countries that have large numbers of older people and people that don't even enter school speaking the native language are at a disadvantage from the start. Add in that the US counts the standerized tests of mentally challenged students in their assesments and it is no wonder our schools "suck". Truth is that students with parents that care so better and students left to their own often fail. That goes for anywhere. (Block-O-text)
They said it, they have less students, same amount of teachers, so each student gets better attention, each student gets better grades.
And since they have less tests, they have half the chances of failing one.
Check your statistic before you believe their bullshit
Notice how the U.S. isn't even on the top 10 list for the international test? Just because they have less tests doesn't mean they do good on them. Most American kids have 3 or so standardized tests a year, and most people don't study for them as well (except for SAT/ACT), and i guarantee that Finnish kids would get much higher scores than American kids if the took the same tests.
thank you for making that point - people who are not swedish make up for 65% of people who are in poverty in Sweden yet almost everyone is white - so maybe it's not the socialism that makes them 'succesful', its their racism
Not modern socialism anyway. France is officially a socialist country right now, and quite frankly, there's nothing quite Red in our politics. Just an inherited protective social system, that is slowly crumbling.
And since they have less tests, they have half the chances of failing one.
Check your statistic before you believe their bullshit
while they do have the highest PISA scores that graph doesn't have countries like the US, whose average is only 24 points lower than finland