The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way by Ripley, Amanda
The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way by Ripley, Amanda

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...
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The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way by Ripley, Amanda

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

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The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way by Ripley, Amanda

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

$32.00
Author: Amanda Ripley
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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 think, in other words, and to thrive in the modern economy. Inspired to find answers for our own children, author and Time magazine journalist Amanda Ripley follows three Americans embed-ded in these countries for one year. Kim, fifteen, raises $10,000 so she can move from Oklahoma to Finland; Eric, eighteen, trades his high-achieving Minnesota suburb for a booming city in South Korea; and Tom, seventeen, leaves a historic Pennsylvania village for Poland.

Through these young informants, Ripley meets battle-scarred reformers, sleep-deprived zombie students, and a teacher who earns $4 million a year. Their stories, along with groundbreaking research into learning in other cultures, reveal a pattern of startling transformation: none of these countries had many "smart" kids a few decades ago. Things had changed. Teaching had become more rigorous; parents had focused on things that mattered; and children had bought into the promise of education.

Author: Amanda Ripley
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 07/29/2014
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781451654431


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 08/17/2014 pg. 32
New York Review of Books 07/09/2015 pg. 33

About the Author
Amanda Ripley is the New York Times bestselling author of The Smartest Kids in the World, High Conflict, and The Unthinkable. She writes for The Atlantic, Politico, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications
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