Tuesday, December 7, 2010

More PISA school achievement results

Lots of fun stuff here, such as a table on students by region in certain European countries. Some tendencies:

- For example, England,  Scotland, and Northern Ireland all do about the same, but Wales lags, kind of like West Virginia in the U.S.

- Finnish-speaking Finns outscore Swedish-speaking Finns, although they both do well versus the world. A century ago, high achieving Finns like Sibelius and Mannerheim tended to come from the coastal Swedish-speaking population of Finland, but the Finnish lumberjacks have really come on in the world since then.

- Flemish-speaking Belgians outscore French-speaking Belgians who outscore German-speaking Belgians.

- Northern Italians outscore Sicilians.

- Madrid slightly outscores Catalonia in Spain.

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