I was fascinated by the review of this book in the New York Times Book Review a couple of weeks ago. The book is called The Smartest Kids in the World and How They Got That Way, and was written by Amanda Ripley. In the field of early education, we often hear about education in Finland, how they have the highest literacy rate in the world, how they don’t start teaching their kids to read until the age of 7, and how kids are not assessed through standardized testing to “earn” funding.
I was really interested to read the review (written by Annie Murphy Paul) about what Ripley found in her research, and I can’t wait to read the book! I’ve already ordered my copy.
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