It was reported in the news yesterday that final grades in mathematics and Icelandic are consistently much higher in primary schools in the capital area. “The factors that have the greatest impact on academic performance are social background and, of course, just school attendance,” says Magnús Þór. “Perhaps we also need to look at how we are staffing our schools with professionals.” He points out that the proportion of professionally trained te…
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It was reported in the news yesterday that final grades in mathematics and Icelandic are consistently much higher in primary schools in the capital area. “The factors that have the greatest impact on academic performance are social background and, of course, just school attendance,” says Magnús Þór. “Perhaps we also need to look at how we are staffing our schools with professionals.” He points out that the proportion of professionally trained te…