Editor’s Note: Janet English, Academic Coach for El Toro High School in California, spent six months in Finland on a Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching. While there, she discovered a tool to ...

What has happened to Finland’s schools? That’s a question educators around the globe are asking in the wake of the latest results of an ongoing study that measures academic achievement in 73 countries ...

This winter, Tim Daly penned a terrific retrospective on the Finland edu-craze of the early 2000s, terming it the “greatest hype bubble in the history of international education.” He recounts how ...

A Finnish flag flies aboard an icebreaker in 2017 as it arrives at Nuuk, Greenland. Finland's school system is regarded as one of the world's more successful. (David Goldman/AP) Perspective by Valerie ...

This fall I heard an inspiring talk by Harvard visiting professor Pasi Sahlberg, author of "Finnish Lessons." In his book and talk, Sahlberg explained why Finnish schools are so successful. This April ...

Review of Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland, by Pasi Sahlberg (NY: Teachers College Press, 2011) About four decades ago, Finland introduced major reforms to ...