Very interesting book by Ripley. She told the story of several students in countries such as South Korea, Poland and Finland. She followed exchange students from America to these places and compared their education systems to ours. Her major question she was trying to answer was why are they "the smartest."
It is a very tough question to answer because it seems that their is no exact formula. One quick thing that I go out of the book was that most successful education systems 1. are rigorous and 2. care about education. I'm not sure we can get to a point in America where we are passionate about either of those. I hope we are. I will certainly do my part as an educator to make sure my classroom is full of both.
Interesting book. I enjoyed it. It was a valuable book with tons of ideas about how I can change my classroom.
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