Smartest Kids in the World - And How They Got That Way Ripley AmandaPaperback
Smartest Kids in the World - And How They Got That Way Ripley AmandaPaperback How do other countries create "smarter" kids? The Smartest Kids in the World "gets well beneath the glossy surfaces of…
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Smartest Kids in the World - And How They Got That Way Ripley AmandaPaperback
How do other countries create "smarter" kids? 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. What is it like to be a child in the world's new education superpowers?
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. They are learning to think, in other words, and to thrive in the modern economy. Kim, fifteen, raises $10,000 so she can move from Oklahoma
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