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Greg Ashman writes about possible 'toxic' effects on schools in Sweden

Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2018 9:09 am
by Debbie_Hepplewhite
The toxic ideological cocktail that poisoned Swedish schools
https://gregashman.wordpress.com/2018/0 ... h-schools/
Kindly helpers have pointed me towards a new working paper from Magnus Henrekson and Johan Wennström. Henrekson is a professor of economics and heads the Research Institute of Industrial Economics in Sweden. Wennström is a journalist, former government adviser and PhD student. They are concerned with the state of Swedish education.

I have written about Swedish education before. No doubt, there has been a decline in standards, but it can be hard to figure out why. My knowledge of the system has been largely based on third person accounts, speculation and a newspaper article by a Swedish professor that I had translated using Google (and which now appears to be paywalled).

With their paper, Henrekson and Wennström have provided much needed detail and they have been kind enough to publish it in English. It is a compelling read.