How the Finns created the smartest schoolkids in the world
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Finnish pupils are the smartest in the world according to a survey 15-year-olds in 41 countries, closely followed by three Asian countries.
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A "pupil passport" scheme in Sweden is popular with parents, says BBC education correspondent Mike Baker.
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Finland, a perfectly livable little European country with five million of the hardiest hockey fans this side of Moose Jaw, had an inferiority complex.
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Brussels, December 7: Finland again came out on top of a worldwide education study of the organisation for economic cooperation and development.
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There's still a Cold War thrill about crossing the border from Finland to Russia.
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By C.S. Lee  DEAR Editor,  THE other day, I read an interesting interview with Microsoft's Bill Gates.  One of the things he mentioned was the introduction of a light- weight computer that children can bring to school to replace heavy textbooks.
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The secondary school curriculum in England is re-shaped to be more relevant to modern learners.
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Korean students topped a problem-solving literacy among 40 countries, breaking a traditional image that they focus on memorizing and lack reasoning capabilities, a major international survey released yesterday showed.
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Despite warnings that he was a cultural mismatch for a predominantly minority school, one principal has outlasted his predecessors while producing surprising results.
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By MIKE BAILEY  Tiffani Pekkala thought her essay and pennant design highlighting space exploration would simply earn extra credits in her science class at Camas' Liberty Middle School.
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A governmental plan to shift the main language of instruction in the nationa s Russian high schools to Estonian is being viewed with uncertainty and pessimism by principals and teachers, a recent survey by the ...
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Schools in the North-East are being offered an education tool that builds children's knowledge of the water cycle.
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The government would like the number of immigrants in Finland to grow significantly.
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The University of Turku started Monday updating the skills of immigrant dentists to meet Finnish requirements.
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NOT JUST IMMIGRATION: The birthrates in many Muslims communities in Europe are among the highest, particularly in Nordic nations.
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Children read better when taught with a new system of phonics that builds on their own diction, researchers say.
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BALBRIGGAN, Ireland -- Happy little learners filed out of school at midday, smiling in their furry jackets and clutching a parent's hand. It could have been anywhere in Ireland, except that almost every child had immigrant parents -- the vast majority of them black -- from places as distant as...