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

By: Amanda Ripley

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: August 2013

Seller ID: 371042

ISBN: 1451654421

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Through the compelling stories of three American teenagers living abroad and attending the world's top-notch public high schools, an investigative reporter explains how these systems cultivate the "smartest" kids on the planet.

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 q...
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The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way

By: Amanda Ripley

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: July 2014

Seller ID: 371513

ISBN: 145165443X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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 le...
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Author:Amanda Ripley

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

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