The smartest kids in the world : and how they got that way / Amanda Ripley.
2013
LB43 .R625 2013 (Mapit)
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Title
The smartest kids in the world : and how they got that way / Amanda Ripley.
Author
Ripley, Amanda, author.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
ISBN
9781451654424
1451654421
9781451654448 (e-book)
1451654421
9781451654448 (e-book)
Published
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013.
Language
English
Description
306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number
LB43 .R625 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
370.9
Summary
Following three teenagers who chose to spend one school year living in Finland, South Korea, and Poland, a literary journalist recounts how attitudes, parenting, and rigorous teaching have revolutionized these countries' education results.
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. What is it like to be a child in the world's new education superpowers? In a global quest to find answers for our own children, author and Time magazine journalist Amanda Ripley follows three Americans embedded in Finland, South Korea, and Poland for one 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.--From publisher description.
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. What is it like to be a child in the world's new education superpowers? In a global quest to find answers for our own children, author and Time magazine journalist Amanda Ripley follows three Americans embedded in Finland, South Korea, and Poland for one 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.--From publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-254) and index.
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Table of Contents
The treasure map
Leaving
The pressure cooker
A math problem
An American in Utopia
Drive
The metamorphosis
Difference
The $4 million teacher
Coming home.
Leaving
The pressure cooker
A math problem
An American in Utopia
Drive
The metamorphosis
Difference
The $4 million teacher
Coming home.