Amanda Ripley is the author of THE SMARTEST KIDS IN THE WORLD--and How They Got That Way, a New York Times bestseller. Her first book, THE UNTHINKABLE: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes--and Why, was published in 15 countries and turned into a PBS documentary. Her work has helped Time win two National Magazine Awards. She currently writes feature stories for the Atlantic, the Washington Post, Politico and other national outlets.
hrough 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 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 m
《世界上最聪明的孩子》是一本讨论教育的书。世界上这么多国家的孩子为什么每个国家的教育水平差别那么大?到底是什么原因?教育好坏怎么评价?初入教育这个领域,凭你是谁都会晕头转向,被这些问题搞晕,本书作者阿曼达李普利通过一个绝佳的视角剖析了教育的问题,展示了各国...
评分 评分本年度阅读的一本比较特殊的原版书。这是一本反思美国中小学教育的书。也是一本让我读得起了翻译冲动的书。有一段时间,我以为这本书已经有中译版了,不过现在看来好像又没有,知道的朋友不妨告诉我一下。如果真的没有,我准备2015年抽空译一下。虽说没有版权。 一直以来,我...
评分作者是一个著名的美国编辑,写这本书的目的是阐述美国教育不如其他教育强国的原因,主要参考了三个教育强国:芬兰,韩国,波兰。以前我对美国充满了美好的幻想,觉得美国啥都是好的,尤其是美国的基础教育,那可是”儿童的天堂“啊。读了这本书让我对美国的基础教育(...
评分书的标题很容易误导读者,让人以为这是本讲如何培养小孩的书。我倒是知道其内容才买的,不过也还是想通过了解不同教育体制的优劣而选择教育孩子的办法。但总的来说,此书对这个目的基本是全无帮助的。 本书构思的起点就是美国初级教育体制的失败(光是这一点倒是值得国内很多...
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评分作者写作功底了得,分析视角十分丰富。正如书中所说,美国内关于教育问题的讨论越来越陷入徒劳无功的困境,他山之石,可以攻玉,从后门溜出来清清脑子,看看别国教育的真实情景如何,也是有益的,是成此书。
评分推翻很多國人對美國教育是榜樣的看法,真正好的教育系統存于嚴格的體系,師資的力量和正確的理念中。這本書不是教你怎樣讓孩子變聰明,而是從本質上討論爲什麽同樣花費,有些國家的教育產出更多。我非常喜歡作者討論why而不是how. 很多人在批評中國的教育問題同時卻沒有看到這個教育體系的優點。上海同樣處於中國教育系統,在2009PISA全球成績最高很讓我驕傲。
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