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 ...

A delegation from the Ministry of Education (MoE), led by Tariq Al Hashimi, Assistant Undersecretary for School Operations ...

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, ...

Apples and oranges — that's what it's like to compare the education systems of the U.S. and Finland. Finland's is wildly successful — consistently topping international rankings. The United States' ...

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 ...

Finland values technical and vocational education which offers students diverse opportunities for personal growth. This approach recognizes the importance of having skilled individuals in various ...

This fall, Finland rolled out a new national curriculum that emphasizes interdisciplinary and student-centered learning. This is a significant education reform for the Nordic country that has become ...

HELSINKI — Hundreds of thousands of children, including my own 8-year-old, returned to primary school this month in Finland. They also returned to a new national curriculum framework in a country that ...

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.