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Singapore’s consistently dizzying PISA rankings point to the latent potential in the nation’s children. But is the system set up to nurture it to its fullest?
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Dear reader, The Financial Times has just published an interview with Lawrence Wong. The paper has headlined the turbulence he expects as we usher in a “post-American” order, but we’ve heard some variant of that before. More interesting is the final bit, less scripted, where he describes the personal...
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