One of the books I've been reading of late is journalist Amanda Ripley's The Smartest Kids in the World (and How They Got That Way). In it, Ripley chronicles the lives of three different American students - one from Oklahoma, one from Minnesota, and one from Pennsylvania - who spend a year of high school overseas in Finland, South Korea, and Poland, respectively. Ripley uses these students' stories to put flesh on her facts from international research that suggests the right kind of rigor, parents who focus on the right things, and students who have bought into the promise of learning all matter a great deal in educating for a civilized society.
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One of the books I've been reading of late is journalist Amanda Ripley's The Smartest Kids in the World (and How They Got That Way). In it, Ripley chronicles the lives of three different American students - one from Oklahoma, one from Minnesota, and one from Pennsylvania - who spend a year of high school overseas in Finland, South Korea, and Poland, respectively. Ripley uses these students' stories to put flesh on her facts from international research that suggests the right kind of rigor, parents who focus on the right things, and students who have bought into the promise of learning all matter a great deal in educating for a civilized society.