Teaching is burdensome. Some of its greatest challenges exist beyond the classroom walls. Poverty. Broken families. Domestic violence. The list continues. Teachers who seek to care for their students ...

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 ...

As you know, Americans have a long history of looking to other countries for answers to our educational problems. In the 19th Century, American educators traveled to Prussia to see the wonders of its ...

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Finland takes education very seriously and holds teachers in high esteem. Can the U.S. learn from Finland’s education model? Last month, the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), a ...

In Finland, the fight against fake news begins in the classroom. From a young age, children are taught to navigate today's media-saturated world with a critical eye. Lessons cover a range of essential ...

“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 ...

Already the most media-literate nation in Europe, Finland is doubling down on efforts in schools to combat misinformation in ...

What books will children need if subjects are off the timetable? Finland backpack via Sergey A.Kravchenko/www.shutterstock.com It easy to lampoon education reforms in ...

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 ...