Before I started teaching at a Finnish public school, I taught first graders in Arlington, Massachusetts. And I had a sharp-eyed mentor teacher named Joanna. "Psst. Can I speak with you for a second?" ...

The Finnish language has a fearsome reputation. With its 15 grammatical cases, 200+ verb endings, and the seemingly never-ending ways to inflect a noun, the language is notoriously difficult to learn ...

Since its debut at the Finnish Artists’ annual exhibition in 1903, The Wounded Angel by Finnish artist Hugo Simberg has remained a perennial favorite both among Finns (it was voted the country’s ...