The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way By Amanda Ripley-free ebook download (pdf,epub)
The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way-free ebook download :By Amanda Ripley
I think this should be required audiobooking, it's an endlessly interesting topic, and despite what NEA readers may say I think the book seems agendaless and balanced. "This should have stayed/been only a New Yorker article" is a critique/dis I'm way too often forced to make, but this kept going strongish throughout with no retread from other audiobookable titles save the "how to praise your child" bit from Po Bronson's superb Nutureshock.
Another reviewer linked to a blog post that I found not unfounded; it had some good points, but was fairly unconvincing and overly weighed down by fringe jabs of no consequence. That said, I, even while audiobooking during meal prep, thought a few of Ripley's statements and stat quotes seemed fast and loose at best.
I bucked in say... chapter three when she gets away from ideas and policy and puts in way too much about the kids in order to add chapters (fear not, this is still a short 3xx pages/7 hours), but hang in there it doesn't end up being that horrible, and if you purposefully numb out it seems even nice. Every non-fiction author must be kicking themselves for not writing this book, which seems to have had a RELATIVELY low degree of difficulty, a la Searching for Sugarman, given its success so kudos to Ripley for having the vision no one else had. I think she deserves the sales.
I don't see how you can be part of the conversation without thoroughly looking into the ideas in this book and if you have a suggestion for another audiobook on educational policy I'm all ears.
I think this should be required audiobooking, it's an endlessly interesting topic, and despite what NEA readers may say I think the book seems agendaless and balanced. "This should have stayed/been only a New Yorker article" is a critique/dis I'm way too often forced to make, but this kept going strongish throughout with no retread from other audiobookable titles save the "how to praise your child" bit from Po Bronson's superb Nutureshock.
Another reviewer linked to a blog post that I found not unfounded; it had some good points, but was fairly unconvincing and overly weighed down by fringe jabs of no consequence. That said, I, even while audiobooking during meal prep, thought a few of Ripley's statements and stat quotes seemed fast and loose at best.
I bucked in say... chapter three when she gets away from ideas and policy and puts in way too much about the kids in order to add chapters (fear not, this is still a short 3xx pages/7 hours), but hang in there it doesn't end up being that horrible, and if you purposefully numb out it seems even nice. Every non-fiction author must be kicking themselves for not writing this book, which seems to have had a RELATIVELY low degree of difficulty, a la Searching for Sugarman, given its success so kudos to Ripley for having the vision no one else had. I think she deserves the sales.
I don't see how you can be part of the conversation without thoroughly looking into the ideas in this book and if you have a suggestion for another audiobook on educational policy I'm all ears.
