The Smartest Kids in the World
by Amanda Ripley
2020-07-14 20:09:07
The Smartest Kids in the World
by Amanda Ripley
2020-07-14 20:09:07
How do other countries create âsmarterâ kids? What is it like to be a child in the worldâs new education superpowers? The Smartest Kids in the World âgets well beneath the glossy surfaces of these foreign cultures and manages to m...
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How do other countries create âsmarterâ kids? What is it like to be a child in the worldâs new education superpowers? The Smartest Kids in the World âgets 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 changesâ (The New York Times Book Review). In a handful of nations, virtually all children are learning to make complex arguments and solve problems theyâve 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 embedÂded 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 âsmartâ 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.
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