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Immigration helps explain Sweden’s school trouble

Gabriel Heller Sahlgren 10 August 2015 17:56

Sweden’s education performance has faltered in the past decades, with scores tumbling in the OECD’s international Pisa survey since the…

The psychosis of the PISA report and best practices

Gabriel Heller Sahlgren 10 December 2013 15:44

The enemies of school reform have something of a champion in Finland’s Pasi Sahlberg. In a recent comment piece for…

Gove’s school choice can end social segregation. The old system entrenches it

Gabriel Heller Sahlgren 29 October 2013 17:47

Like most foreigners who move to Britain, I was struck when I first arrived by how much people worry about…

What Stephen Twigg doesn’t understand about Sweden’s for-profit schools

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As a Swede, I’m always intrigued to hear the British Labour Party say how Sweden’s free school system has been…

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