About Amanda Ripley
After graduating from Cornell University, Amanda Ripley worked as a investigative journalist for TIME, The Atlantic and the Washington Monthly. During most of her career she tried to stay away from the topic of education. On numerous occasions her editors asked her to write about schools or testing but she always countered with ideas such as illnesses, terrorism or governmental issues. This all changed one day when an editor asked her to interview Michelle Rhee, a new leader of Washington D.C.'s public schools. Amanda spent months talking to the teachers, students and education researchers. She was very curious to find out why some children were learning so much while others weren't learning much at all. She spent the next few years researching and writing stories about education. One day Amanda discovered that children in the United States were scoring worse on test scores compared to children in many other countries. Determined to discover why children around the world seemed to be smarted than children in the United States Amanda traveled, following 3 exchange students, to Finland, South Korea and Poland.
This is a new book on my list--several of my AP kids last year read it and they loved it. I put it on my TBR list, but don't know when I'll get to it. I can't wait to hear what you think about the book.
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