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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: smartest kids in the world
    sub title: and how they got that way
  name:
    name part: Ripley, Amanda.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2013
    edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  abstract: 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.
  abstract: 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.
  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.
  note: Amanda Ripley.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-254) and index.
  subject:
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  subject:
    topic: Comparative education
  subject:
    topic: Education
    geographic: Finland
  subject:
    topic: Education
    geographic: Korea (South)
  subject:
    topic: Education
    geographic: Poland
  classification: LB43 .R625 2013
  classification: 370.9
  identifier: 9781451654424
  identifier: 1451654421
  identifier: 9781451654448 (e-book)
  identifier: 2013002021
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 130312
    record change date: 20151206084554.0
    record identifier: in00003400025
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng