Jordan Blake Banks, an American who moved to Finland, said the pay is lower but healthcare education, and childcare are much ...

"This is what we do every day," says Kirkkojarvi Comprehensive School principal Kari Louhivuori, "prepare kids for life." Stuart Conway It was the end of term at Kirkkojarvi Comprehensive School in ...

IDEALLY, MARIANNE KORKALAINEN’S high school in Rautavaara, a tiny town in eastern Finland, would enrol at least 20 new pupils each year. This autumn, her shrinking municipality will send her only ...

In a world that seems to spin faster with every swipe, Finland is pressing pause. This August, when students across the country return to classrooms, they’ll be walking into a new kind of learning ...

Back home after living in Finland for five months, Samantha Hull giggles at the notion that the Scandinavian country is the happiest in the world. Why? Being the happiest country in the world, ...

Minnesota should “adopt the Finnish education model,” Jon Olson wrote in his Feb. 13 commentary “10 bold initiatives for Minnesota.” Ted Kolderie quickly shot down the idea, calling it an ...

The school where Louhivuori teaches served 240 first through ninth graders last year; and in contrast with Finland’s reputation for ethnic homogeneity, more than half of its 150 elementary-level ...