Since it was reformed 40 years ago, Finland's education system has frequently been held up as one of the best in the world. Today, that changed. Tbe OECD released its PISA global rankings that showed ...

Helsinki, Finland? Like many other foreign journalists, I made the obligatory pilgrimage to Finland to learn how this country has climbed to the top spots in key international rankings measuring ...

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 ...

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 ...

As Vietnam seeks to advance education reform, educational leadership has become an increasingly important topic in ...

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 United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Republic of Finland have announced €2.7 million in funding to support children ...

Editor’s Note: Pasi Sahlberg is visiting professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education and former director general in the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture. Follow him on ...