Saturday, August 24, 2013

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

http://www.amazon.com/The-Smartest-Kids-World-They/dp/1451654421/ref=reg_hu-rd_add_1_dp

Possible book club book . . .

“If you want the American dream, go to Finland.” These blunt words from a British politician, quoted by Amanda Ripley in “The Smartest Kids in the World,” may lead readers to imagine that her book belongs to a very particular and popular genre. We love to read about how other cultures do it better (stay slim, have sex, raise children). In this case, Ripley is offering to show how other nations educate students so much more effectively than we do, and her opening pages hold out a promising suggestion of masochistic satisfaction.

NY Times Review

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/books/review/amanda-ripleys-smartest-kids-in-the-world.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0&ref=books

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