An article in today's Globe and Mail focuses on the Finnish education system, which is typically ranked #1 or 2 in the world by PISA [[int'l ranking body for education systems in OECD countries).

It examines not only why academic outcomes are so good, but why social mobility [[roughly the ability for poor or lower-middle income kids to climb to a higher standard of living than their parents) is also best-in-class so to speak.

The article only briefly touches on comparisons with Canada, the U.S., Germany and Britain.

Its a radically different approach they are using, however, than any of those models.

What could be lifted from the Finnish model to work in Detroit and/or Michigan?

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...ticle29716845/

PISA rankings, 2015 - Reading and Math:

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-26249042