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Comment by NalNezumi

1 year ago

While my own experience and bias would say this is a good thing, because it says "Sweden" I take it (and now my bias) with a grain of salt.

Sweden perform quite significantly worse than the rest of the Nordic countries when it comes to school and things such as PISA scores. I do remember seeing in high school (2007 or so) on TV, how Sweden got a bad score and the education minister flat out denied the suggestions by pisa just to push through their political promises (smaller classes, which I think was mostly a politically motivated, to get teachers support)

I think you should probably look to Finland, its much better neighbor, when it comes to school policies.

Edit: apparently according to this article[1] the negative trend of declining scores have been reversed since 2016 so who knows, maybe this is a good thing

[1] https://www.thelocal.se/20161206/what-swedens-improving-scho...

Finland has been falling in PISA scores and the general consensus seems to be the over reliance on tech in education. The current government has also set less tech in schools as one of their goals. So sure, look st finland since they are going to do the same thing