you go to school 180 days and we're going to show you in the back where that is with other industrialized countries. you think if there was a longer school year, that would help. but finland has fewer days in the school year and they are at the top of the year. >> in the piece that i wrote, i actually looked at a multipronged attack. and the summer school was one part of that conversation. you're absolutely correct. finland is only in school on average ten more days than we are, but what they have done culturally is shift their attitudes about education so the positions of being a teacher are highly sought after, they're respected, education is more respected and the way they evaluate and test teachers is much more stringent than they have right now in the united