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

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About This Book

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 , 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 highlights how they differ from the US and much of the rest of the world. Featuring substantial additions throughout the text, Finnish Lesson 2.0 demonstrates how systematically focusing on teacher and leader professionalism, building…