3 Things I Learned from the Country with Europe’s Best Schools
You’ll marvel at Estonia’s education system. “At our schools, we don’t have homework,” 11-year old Ulvar told me during a school visit to Tallinn. I chuckled. Estonian students outperform all other European countries in PISA results — by not having homework? Ulvar wasn’t joking. Compared to other PISA participating countries, Estonian students have short school days and spend little time on homework or 1-on-1 tutoring. While many other high-performing PISA countries, like Singapore or Korea, achieve high learning outcomes