The Smartest Kids in the World Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Amanda Ripley
SCORE
4
TOTAL RATINGS
350

The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley Book Summary

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.

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Book Name The Smartest Kids in the World
Genre Education
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Language English
E-Book Size 5.9 MB

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Buy one for your friends. Eye opening book - you owe it to every child in America to read

Great Read. She presents a lot of useful tidbits of information regarding the state of education on a global scale. It’s a swift yet meaningful read.

A Timely Book. An important book for American students, teachers, parents, educators and policy-makers. What remains to be seen is that after individuals from each of these groups reads ‘What Makes Kids Smart...’ will anything change.

Can't stop talking about this book!. One of the most interesting books I've read in a long time. Ripley does a great job of mixing data, her experience and her foreign exchange students to make this a page turner.

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Summary of The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley

The The Smartest Kids in the World book written by Amanda Ripley was published on 13 August 2013, Tuesday in the Education category. A total of 350 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.

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