• Finnish Lessons 2.0: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland?

    The first edition of Finnish Lessons won the prestigious Grawemeyer Award in Education in 2013. It was featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, The Guardian, CNN, Education Week, The Huffington Post, and Dan Rather Reports and has been translated into 16 languages. Now, with Finnish Lessons 2.0, Pasi Sahlberg has thoroughly updated his groundbreaking account of how Finland built a world-class education system during the past four decades. In this international bestseller, Sahlberg traces the evolution of Finnish education policies and hig... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0807755850
    • ASIN: 0807755850
    • ISBN: 9780807755853
    • Brand: Teachers College Press
    • Manufacturer: Teachers College Press

  • The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way

    How do other countries create “smarter” kids? What is it like to be a child in the world’s new education superpowers? The Smartest Kids in the World “gets well beneath the glossy surfaces of these foreign cultures and manages to make our own culture look newly strange....The question is whether the startling perspective provided by this masterly book can also generate the will to make changes” (The New York Times Book Review).In a handful of nations, virtually all children are learning to make complex arguments and solve problems they’ve never seen before. They are learning to thin... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 145165443X
    • UPC: 884897274245
    • ASIN: 145165443X
    • ISBN: 145165443X
    • Brand: Simon & Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

  • The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life

    A Finnish journalist, now a naturalized American citizen, asks Americans to draw on elements of the Nordic way of life to nurture a fairer, happier, more secure, and less stressful society for themselves and their children.Moving to America in 2008, Finnish journalist Anu Partanen quickly went from confident, successful professional to wary, self-doubting mess. She found that navigating the basics of everyday life—from buying a cell phone and filing taxes to education and childcare—was much more complicated and stressful than anything she encountered in her homeland. At first, she attribut... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0062316559
    • ASIN: 0062316559
    • ISBN: 0062316559
    • Brand: HARPER
    • Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks

  • How Children Succeed

    “Drop the flashcards—grit, character, and curiosity matter even more than cognitive skills. A persuasive wake-up call.”—PeopleWhy do some children succeed while others fail? The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: success comes to those who score highest on tests, from preschool admissions to SATs. But in How Children Succeed, Paul Tough argues that the qualities that matter more have to do with character: skills like perseverance, curiosity, optimism, and self-control.How Children Succeed introduces us to a new generation of researchers and... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0544104404
    • ASIN: 0544104404
    • ISBN: 9780544104402
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

  • Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon? : Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World

    Offers an insider's account of the Chinese school system, revealing how, despite resulting in high achievements in science, math, and reading, the nation's educational programs are universally

    • UPC: 23781072

  • Why Finland has the best education system in the world

    Top 10 Reasons FINLAND Has the World’s Best SCHOOL SYSTEM

    Finnish School System - FACTS AND FICTION