Reading ability among Swedish school students is declining. Hammarkullsskolan in Gothenburg has counteracted the negative trend with a clear investment in reading culture.
"Some schools succeed because we don't care much about what the National Agency for Education says," says assistant principal Linnéa Lindquist in Aktuellt. Martin Ingvar, a neuroscientist at Karolinska Institutet, agrees that the Swedish school system has failed students with Swedish as a second language and students whose parents have low education.