The following is an excerpt from Teacherpreneurs: Innovative Teachers Who Lead But Don't Leave, by Barnett Berry and Ann Byrd, and Alan Wieder. This excerpt focuses on how educators in Finland see ...

“I have been very tired—more tired and confused than I have ever been in my life,” Kristiina Chartouni, a veteran Finnish educator who began teaching American high-school students this autumn, said in ...

For the last decade, Finland’s success on international tests has caught the attention of education policymakers around the world. What is it about this small Nordic nation that has led to its ...

Sahlberg, who directs Finaldn’s Centre for International Mobility and Cooperation, won the 2013 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education for the book “Finnish Lessons: What Can the World ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Two years ago Timo Soini was cock-a-hoop. His True Finns — a populist party espousing scepticism of the EU and ...

Members of the True Finns party and of Finland's ruling conservatives want to abolish compulsory Swedish tuition in schools. It is part of a growing right-wing campaign to assert a Finnish national ...

Anyone impassioned about education and needed reforms today, especially in the public school system, will inevitably be drawn to the small country of Finland, which has become the model for a highly ...

In the 1980s, educators and policy makers swarmed across Germany to examine its two-tier education system that separated college-bound students from vocational ed students, all in an effort to boost ...