A delegation of US educators recently toured Scandinavia in hopes of finding our how students of that region were able to score highly on an international test of math and science skills. Strikingly absent in those Scandinavian classrooms: competitive grading, standardized testing, and top-down accountability--staples of the American school. Instead, the educational systems of Finland, Sweden, and Denmark all cited autonomy, project-based learning, and nationwide broadband internet access as their ways to success.
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