The Resource The smartest kids in the world : and how they got that way, Amanda Ripley
The smartest kids in the world : and how they got that way, Amanda Ripley
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The item The smartest kids in the world : and how they got that way, Amanda Ripley represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evanston Public Library.
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- Summary
- 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 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 world-as told by the young Americans who have the most at stake
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 43 min.))
- Isbn
- 9781452696119
- Label
- The smartest kids in the world : and how they got that way
- Title
- The smartest kids in the world
- Title remainder
- and how they got that way
- Statement of responsibility
- Amanda Ripley
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 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 world-as told by the young Americans who have the most at stake
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- Midwest
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- Ripley, Amanda
- Dewey number
- 370.9
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- PerformerNote
- Read by Kate Reading
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- Reading, Kate
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- Comparative education
- Education
- Education
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- Target audience
- adult
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- not applicable
- Label
- The smartest kids in the world : and how they got that way, Amanda Ripley
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Carrier category
- online resource
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- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 43 min.))
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- unknown
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- online
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- 9781452696119
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- (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
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- 11411973
- Publisher number
- MWT11411973
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- Label
- The smartest kids in the world : and how they got that way, Amanda Ripley
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- not applicable
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
-
- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
-
- not applicable
- unknown
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 43 min.))
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
-
- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781452696119
- Isbn Type
- (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- not applicable
- Kind of material
- unknown
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- digital.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 11411973
- Publisher number
- MWT11411973
- Quality assurance targets
- unknown
- Reformatting quality
- access
- Sound
- sound
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
-
- other
- remote
- Speed
- other
- System control number
- (MWT)MWT11411973
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
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