How Efficacious Educator Came to Be

This summer, we visited family in Sweden, and I asked our cousins, “Does it matter which neighborhood or town you live in? Are schools better in some places than others?” The immediate and emphatic answer was, "Absolutely not." In Sweden, schools are regarded as equally good, regardless of where a child is born or the family’s socioeconomic background. There was a palpable belief in the room that, “Our schools and teachers are beyond reproach.”