Her eight and nine-year-olds are attentive. "Who am I?" she asks. The answer, of course, is "a book," as this is a literacy class.
Together, Johanna and Ophelia want to try to answer a bigger puzzle. Why have Finland's youngsters performed so well in the international OECD PISA assessment in literacy; what are Finnish schools doing better than any other country?
Johanna has spotted one feature in the PISA statistics "What I've noticed in Finland's results, is that there are not as many of those slower learners who need the special help."
Is her mixed ability class part of the answer, or does the explanation lie deeper in the nation's character?
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