http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/education/july-dec98/testing_9-15.html

Note this was nearly 10 years ago - Have things got better? NIMHO.
All a right-wing Neanderthal plot, according to the teacher's unions.
FWIW Massachusetts public education is one of the largest and best-funded systems in the country (The United States, for you public school
grads... :)

---- Tomas Larsson <tomas@tlec.se> wrote: 
> Me thinks, at least here in Sweden, it's very much up to the system.
> There is a HUGE problem with Swedish schools, when the pupils are to clever,
> or not clever at all.
> Clever pupils are pushed back, so they ends up as average (or preferably
> below average), the not so clever ones is more or less neglected.
> It all comes back to the intention of the politicians, (whom are scared for
> the clever ones).

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