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The latest Pisa survey showed poor results globally and in Sweden, but Estonia stood out with the best results in Europe.
The latest Pisa survey showed lousy results - globally and in Sweden. But one European country stood out: Estonia. Why do Estonians succeed where others fail?
DN's Peter Letmark and Anette Nantell traveled to Tallinn to find out the answer and found classrooms characterized by order and respect for the teachers.
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Voters' verdict: The worst and most irrelevant election campaign in 20 years
This year's election campaign was the worst and most irrelevant in 20 years. This is the verdict of the voters in a new survey from DN/Ipsos.
- The voters think that the parties devote themselves more to getting on each other than telling them what they themselves want, says Nicklas Källebring at Ipsos.
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Running party in the underground multi-billion dollar project
Over 34,000 exercisers alternately ran, jogged and jogged on newly laid asphalt and through several kilometers of Förbifart Stockholm's tunnels on Saturday.
- This will be the talk of the year in the world of exercise running, said Anki Hernborg, 64, after the race
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He claims to have found Sweden's most expensive stolen painting
Who has "Hins Anders"? It has been almost 30 years since Anders Zorn's painting was stolen from the Thielska gallery in Stockholm. Since then it has disappeared without a trace. And the police cannot find the actual criminal investigation in their archive.
In a new book, author Karl Enn claims to have the solution to the riddle.
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Stockholm's top-level housing - record prices on Södermalm
An apartment on Södermalm recently broke a new price record per square meter - and housing prices in central Stockholm are at the peak of SEK 120,000.
- But it is likely that we will not even include the most extreme items in the statistics, says Per-Arne Sandegren at Swedish Broker Statistics.
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Five news from October 3:
This is how Estonia's school became the best in Europe
Voters' verdict: The worst and most irrelevant election campaign in 20 years
Running party in the underground multi-billion dollar project
He claims to have found Sweden's most expensive stolen painting

In Mustamäe high school in Tallinn, Estonian students show high reading comprehension and discipline despite challenges with digital distractions. The teachers have high status and freedom to design the teaching, while the students practice critical thinking by comparing their own analyzes with AI tools. Estonia also sees a decline in reading ability, but the result in PISA is still better than Sweden's.

Students at Lapland's high school in Gällivare choose vocational programs to quickly enter working life. The electricity and energy program is particularly sought after due to the green transition and good salary prospects, which contribute to low youth unemployment in the region.
The sanctuary school has introduced an all-day cell phone ban where students hand in their phones at the start of school instead of collecting them per lesson. Principal Anna Granberg reports on positive consequences, while some students initially found it difficult to let go of their mobile phones. The school believes that adult staff can handle contact in crisis situations despite the ban.

Marlen Eskander, founder of Läsfrämjarinstitutet, describes how her grandfather's oral stories about fleeing the Ottoman Empire shaped her view of reading and storytelling. At the Book Fair, she emphasizes that reading comprehension is a skill that requires practice and the commitment of adults, and warns of the declining reading comprehension among young people in the light of the Pisa survey.

The latest Pisa results have reignited the debate about screens in school, with the Liberals and Education Minister Simona Mohamsson pointing to a "screen epidemic" as the cause. But results from 2018 and 2022 show that Swedish students performed better when digitization was at its highest, which speaks against a simple connection between screen use and deteriorating skills. Estonia is highlighted as a contrasting example: despite high digitization and no mobile phone ban, the country is at the top in reading ability, thanks to research-based reforms and trust in the professional judgment of teachers. In Sweden, research is used selectively to legitimize decisions that have already been made, while teachers are forced to constantly adapt to the crosshairs between digitization and de-digitization, which erodes their room for action and contributes to a teacher shortage. To reverse the knowledge trend, less political squeamishness and more trust in the teaching profession and collective research is required.

Before the Book Fair in Gothenburg, the alarming reading crisis among Swedish 15-year-olds is being discussed. At the same time, writers and readers gather for talks at DN's stand, where attention is also directed to the imprisoned journalist Dawit Isaak.