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The Smartest Kids In The World
Amanda Ripley
And How They Got That Way
Simon & Schuster
August 2013
On Sale: August 13, 2013
320 pages
ISBN: 1451654421
EAN: 9781451654424
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
How Do Other Countries Create “Smarter” Kids?
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 these countries for one year. Kim, fifteen, raises
$10,000 so she can move from Oklahoma to Finland; Eric,
eighteen, exchanges a 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.
A journalistic tour
de force, The Smartest Kids in the World is a book
about building resilience in a new world—as told by the
young Americans who have the most at stake.
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