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The Smartest Kids in the World - And How They Got That Way
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The Smartest Kids in the World

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How Do Other Countries Create ΓÇ£SmarterΓÇ¥ Kids?

In a handful of nations, virtually all children are learning to make complex arguments and solve problems theyΓÇÖve 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 worldΓÇÖs 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 ΓÇ£smartΓÇ¥ 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 worldΓÇöas told by the young Americans who have the most at stake.

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so I am out of requests, please send more to jennseo1@yahoo.com (please don't smash out the email server...haha...)
Wow! Many thankx. I hope to read soon and recommend to people in charge of moribound educational system in my country.

Will definitely be sending request. Thanks for the open invitation ( lol)