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

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

Revolutionary insights into global education systems.

The Smartest Kids in the World provides a fascinating insight into the education systems of Finland, South Korea, and Poland through the experiences of American high school students. Ripley's investigative work highlights the importance of persistence, hard work, and resilience in achieving academic success, and challenges traditional notions of what makes for brighter and better students. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in education and its impact on global competitiveness.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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

by Amanda Ripley
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ISBN: 9781451654431
Authors: Amanda Ripley
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date of Publication: 2014-07-29
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Science, Politics, Sociology
Related Topics: Psychology, Education, Sociology, Politics, Education
Goodreads rating: 4.07
(rated by 14286 readers)

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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 embed­ded 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.
 

Revolutionary insights into global education systems.

The Smartest Kids in the World provides a fascinating insight into the education systems of Finland, South Korea, and Poland through the experiences of American high school students. Ripley's investigative work highlights the importance of persistence, hard work, and resilience in achieving academic success, and challenges traditional notions of what makes for brighter and better students. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in education and its impact on global competitiveness.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.