> And comparing his experience a tiny European country with a small and homogenous population and thinking that the USA is going to have the the same challenges or possible solutions is a bit naive.
"You seem to be unaware that public education is actually a state matter, that Oregon is about the same size (both physically and in population) as FInland, and that your comparison of all of the US to Finland thus makes no sense? Yes, there are some federal rules (and federal funding, but that would go to the poorer states), but you'd be better off comparing the US to EU if you want to compare at that level." - Linus Torvalds
Well you cant compare a large sparsely populated agricultural state to a small densely populated and richer nation state such as Finland.
And no offense ment here the problem is the Linus doesn't seem to understand some of the political and social history of the USA which would act against his ideas.
Finland is a little larger than Oregon, and only slightly more densely populated: 16.0/km² vs 15.0/km²; countries as far north as Alaska are generally not "densely populated", but maybe you mentally pictured it to be somewhere in central/western Europe. Homogenity seem more relevant to compare than these factoids, though.
"You seem to be unaware that public education is actually a state matter, that Oregon is about the same size (both physically and in population) as FInland, and that your comparison of all of the US to Finland thus makes no sense? Yes, there are some federal rules (and federal funding, but that would go to the poorer states), but you'd be better off comparing the US to EU if you want to compare at that level." - Linus Torvalds