Finally, Finland’s education system, founded on principles of equality and inclusion, has,
with respect to PISA, yielded the smallest between-school variation (Halinen & Järvinen,
2008; Reinikainen, 2012; Schleicher, 2009). Such a system, in which all schools perform
equally well, would appear to be the envy of the world and warrant Hausstätter & Takala’s
(2011) assertion that not only is the Finnish school “the best school in the world, but