[_mulder_]

Perhaps American's would be even more educated if they used a system like Finland's, often held up as the worlds best education system. Paying less and getting better results sounds good to me. Maybe Finland's high educational achievement level starts with the picture book in the box?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Index

[yummyfajitas]

If it's so easy to copy, how come no one else in the world has actually managed to do it?

[eru]

Some parts of Germany now rank as well as the Finnish average in the PISA tests. (And Singapore ranks pretty well, too, but that was not a result of an effort spurred on by the testing.)

[yummyfajitas]

So do some parts of the US. Ethnic subgroups of the US with similar ethnicity to Singapore also rank quite well.

http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-well-do-above-...

[nawitus]

One reason is that education politics are extremely conservative.