[learc83]

The US and Canada have vastly different demographics. In the US black and hispanic children perform far worse than white and asian children.

Wikipedia says that black and hispanic Canadians comprise less than 4% of the population.

[msbarnett]

It's not obvious that this statistic is an argument against the success of the Finnish system being translatable to America, though. Black and Hispanic children are disproportionately likely to be poor and subject to underfunded schooling, and may in fact be the demographics who would stand to improve the most under a system more interested in equalizing such disadvantages than the current one.