The second important factor is how comprehensive are the schools.
The story of the comprehensive school kids producing the Junior Gazette, little-sister paper to the local rag, Press Gang was equally comfortable dealing with child abuse and drug use.
The evangelical-Lutheran faith of the Danish state church has always been at the center of the subject's curriculum as decided by the comprehensive school law although the subject is non-confessional.
And we were bonded by our shared horror of the comprehensive school system - the teaching methods had changed little since the war.
However, security police arrived at the Asmara comprehensive secondary school the next day, and detained him.
Returning to the United States in 1957, he took up an earlier interest in public education and conducted studies of the comprehensive high school and the junior high school.
The arrival of the comprehensive school brought a huge change.
The purpose of the comprehensive school is to democratize education, do away with early selection procedures, and provide equal opportunity for all children.
By 1977, the comprehensive school system covered the whole of Finland and has remained without major reforms ever since.
While giving a robust defence of the principle of comprehensive schooling, the watchdog's chief inspector of schools also lambasted the "baleful legacies" of the past.
But it doesn't necessarily show the full potential of the comprehensive school pupils".
