Via PasiSahlberg.com: Finnish Lessons 2.0. Excerpt:
New and comprehensively updated edition of Finnish Lessons will appear in January 2015. The first edition that was published in November 2011 has had an unbelievable journey. It has been translated into 16 languages so far and counting. It won the 2013 Grawemeyer Award issued by the University of Louisville, KY, and took me to speak in Parliaments of European Union, Scotland, England, Australia, New Zealand and Latvia. I have had a marvelous journey with it, too.
Now, with Finnish Lessons 2.0, I have thoroughly updated earlier groundbreaking account of how Finland built a world-class education system during the past four decades. I trace the evolution of Finnish education policies and highlights how they differ from the United States and much of the rest of the world.
Featuring substantial additions throughout the text, Finnish Lessons 2.0 demonstrates how systematically focusing on teacher and leader professionalism, building trust between the society and its schools, and investing in educational equity rather than competition, choice, and other market-based reforms make Finnish schools an international model of success.
This second edition details the complexity of meaningful change by examining Finland’s educational performance in light of the most recent international assessment data and domestic changes.
Jan 2015/264 pp./PB, $24.95
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