Re:Why Finland’s schools are great (by doing what we don’t).
by angus77 on Sunday October 16, 2011 @05:58AM
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Canada's got at least the diversity the US has, and yet regularly ranks quite high in worldwide educational standards.
Edit: added the following link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/dec/07/world-ed...
Re:Why Finland’s schools are great (by doing what we don’t).
by DilipJ on Sunday October 16, 2011 @08:38PM
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Canada is far less diverse than the US. Canada is about 90% white, the US is about 68% white. And most minorities in Canada are screened for education/intelligence before arrival, whereas in the US most minorities are a byproduct of the transatlantic slave trade/illegal immigration
Re:Why Finland’s schools are great (by doing what we don’t).
by wmoxam on Monday October 17, 2011 @12:20AM
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I guess it depends on what you consider 'diverse'. You seem to only consider skin colour.
Besides, Canada is more like 80% 'white' vs 72% in the US.
An interesting tidbit you may not know is that less then 60% of Canadians speak English as their mother tongue, vs 82% in the US.
Re:Why Finland’s schools are great (by doing what we don’t).
by DilipJ on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @11:36PM
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Right, but a majority of those non-English speakers in Canada are in Quebec speaking French. I can't imagine there's that much of an IQ difference between French- and Anglo-Canadians...
Re:Why Finland’s schools are great (by doing what we don’t).
by wmoxam on Friday October 21, 2011 @10:25AM
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Actually the non-english speakers are split evenly between french speakers, and speakers of other languages.
The discussion was about diversity (and the imagined lack thereof in Canada), not about IQ ...
Perhaps not genetics, but (also controversially) perhaps 'diversity' is over-rated. Many of the least diverse countries enjoy such positive results. The U.S. slips further and further as it gets more diverse.