Finnish undergraduate students enter education with stronger critical thinking and argumentation skills than their U.S.

Last week, Annie Murphy Paul’s review of Amanda Ripley’s book, “The Smartest Kids in the World”, began with Ripley’s quote: “If you want the American dream, go to Finland.” It just so happened that I ...

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 ...

While the rest of the world continues chasing test scores, ranking schools like Olympic athletes, and drowning kids in homework—Finland quietly flipped the script. No standardized testing. Short ...

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 ...

The Finnish education system has been at the center of global attention for exactly a decade. Until the publication of the first Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, results in ...

The University of Helsinki's new online course is meant for all with an interest in Finnish education. The MOOC includes simulations that deepen the knowledge about outdoor learning and development ...

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.

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 ...

The Harvard education professor Howard Gardner once advised Americans, “Learn from Finland, which has the most effective schools and which does just about the opposite of what we are doing in the ...