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The rich world’s teachers are increasingly morose

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I n a secondary school on the outskirts of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, a pupil scrawls the solutions to mathematical equations on a whiteboard. His teacher, a young woman, stands at the back helping to guide the student and encouraging his peers to comment. In a chemistry lesson down the corridor, two students race to scribble out formulae for compounds while their classmates offer helpful critiques. Such cleverness is easy to find in Estonian classrooms: its teenagers rate as the brainiest in Europe. In maths the country’s 15-year-olds post test scores that suggest they are roughly a year ahead of British children, and two years ahead of American ones. Yet for all their success Estonia’s world-beating schools face a formidable long-term challenge. More than half of its teachers are 50 or over, compared with an eu average of 38%. Many will retire in the next ten years. And just like less-celebrated school systems, Estonia is finding it difficult to recruit and retain the youngster

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