Finland’s education system is touted by many as one of the best, if not the best, in the world, and its students consistently score at or neat the top of international tests (you might also be interested in The Best Sites For Getting Some Perspective On International Test Comparison Demagoguery) . What, if anything, can we in the United States learn from what they are doing?

Here are my choices for The Best Resources To Learn About Finland’s Education System (please feel free to suggest additional articles I should include):

Learning from Finland:How one of the world’s top educational performers turned around from The Boston Globe

Imagine a nation with excellent schools by Ken Bernstein. Ken’s posted a similar article at Daily Kos, which has a ton of comments.

What can we learn from Finland?: A Q&A with Dr. Pasi Sahlberg from The Hechinger Report

Finnish Envy by Paul Thomas

In Teachers We Trust: An Interview with Finnish Education Expert Reijo Laukkanen at Learning First

Why do Finland’s schools get the best results? from the BBC

What we can learn from Finland’s successful school reform is the title of an article by Linda Darling-Hammond.

The Children Must Play: What the United States could learn from Finland about education reform is a very good article in The New Republic.

Here’s an interview with Finland’s Minister of Education.

The Finland Phenomenon – a film on schools is by Ken Bernstein.

Finland’s Educational Success? The Anti-Tiger Mother Approach is from TIME Magazine.

The Finland Phenomenon: Inside the World’s Most Surprising School System appears in Forbes.

Are Finnish schools the best in the world? comes from The Belfast Telegraph.

How Finland became an education leader appeared in Salon.

Why Are Finland’s Schools Successful? is from The Smithsonian Magazine.

Paradoxes of the Finland Phenomenon is by Joe Bower.

Here’s an important video on what we can learn from Finland’s education system:

Finland puts bar high for teachers, kids’ well-being is an extensive report from The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Finnish Lessons is a good PowerPoint presentation.

26 Amazing Facts About Finland’s Unorthodox Education System comes from Business Insider.

Finnish Lessons is by Ken Bernstein.

What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School Success is from The Atlantic.

Pasi Sahlberg, the expert and author on education in Finland, has a blog.

Dan Rather Reports On Finland’s Schools

Finland’s Success Is No Miracle is by Pasi Sahlberg and appeared in Education Week.

What Can We Learn from Educational Change in Finland? is by Pasi Sahlberg.

Finnishing School is from Thoughts On Public Education.

The Finland Phenomenon: What the U.S. Can Learn about Teacher Preparation and Professional Collaboration is from CCSSO.

Finland Schools’ Success Story: Lessons Shared At California Forum is from The Huffington Post.

Schools We Can Envy is by Diane Ravitch and appeared in the New York Review of Books.

What American Policymakers Can Learn From Finland is a good post from Barnett Berry.

Pasi Sahlberg was interviewed on the radio by Cornel West. It’s embedded below.

Highly educated teachers the key to success is an interview with Finland’s Pasi Sahlberg. Thanks to Greg Wilson for the tip.

A Model Lesson: Finland Shows Us What Equal Opportunity Looks Like is by Pasi Sahlberg.

What’s So Great About Schools in Finland? is from Mind/Shift.

Standardized Testing A Foreign Concept In Finland With World’s Top Students is from The Huffington Post.

The well-regarded documentary The Finland Phenomenon is now online for free and is embedded below. I learned about its availability via a tweet by Pasi Sahlberg, which also included a radio interview:

Finnish Education in a Nutshell is from The Finnish National Board of Education.

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