Actually South Korea has the number 1 education system in the World closely followed by Japan. I believe Finland is at number 7 currently. And these two countries have been at the top since 2013 (if I remember correctly)
Weirdly enough, Korean school are totally different from this. Kids do hours of homework, they isolate themselves from friends to study from as young as seven(personal experience), and they are basically judged on their schoolwork. The hardworking Asian stereotypes totally apply, and they're totally proud of it
Both countries schools are that way. In fact recently they've had to go in and get rid of full week long school schedules because kids were working themselves to the hospitals. I fully respect how much the kids learn and their efforts. I wish I could go there to learn.
It's illegal to divide them by ability? That sound fuckin stupid. How's 1 teacher sup posed to efficiently teach 2 students with a large gap in ability?
Many come to American colleges. My neighbor is Finnish. Came here for college, loved it here, joined US Navy after school, got GI bill and citizenship, works here as an engineer. Several of his cousins have also come here for schooling.
It's not in America that I know of but from what I can find on it it's a listing of the schools like class rankings but nation/province wide...(correct me if I'm wrong)
Don't sort kids into sets. That way, you can hold back the brightest, who would create new inventions, new products and new industries, so that the less-than-brightest won't feel bad. Teach at the pace that's comfortable for the slowest...it's not like the brightest kids will get bored, daydream or get into trouble for not paying attention.
Uh
Have you seen the cost??