Advocates of education reform have pointed to Finland consistently over the past few years, urging the U.S. to take note of its educational success. The country has “consistently performed among the ...

Conversations change. Instead of fretting about why French women do not get fat, we’re now obsessed with why public schools in Finland are so good. An official with Finland’s Ministry of Education and ...

The initiative began in late 2015 when Finnish schools and educators were invited to submit their ideas for experiments to be trialed over the course of one school year. More than 700 hundred schools ...

Year after year, Finland is ranked as one of the world leaders in education while America lags far behind. But it's not that Finland knows more about how to build effective schools than the US does.

How has one industrialized country created one of the world’s most successful education systems in a way that is completely hostile to testing? That’s the question asked — and answered — in a new ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Educational philosophy in Finland is strikingly different than in the United States, but the students there outperform U.S. learners. The Finnish school system might sound like a ...

Elizabeth Radday, Learning Support teacher at The Marvelwood School, recently spent six months in Finland, where she studied how their innovative vocational education system works for all students, ...

As I document in Education and the Commercial Mindset, Milton Friedman and his disciples contended for decades that private markets could deliver better schooling than governments. In the 1990s, this ...