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Amanda Ripley is an investigative journalist who writes about human behavior and public policy. For Time Magazine and the Atlantic, she has chronicled the stories of American kids and teachers alongside groundbreaking new research into education reform. “Kids have strong opinions about school. We forget as adults how much time they sit there contemplating their situation.”
From DSC:
I post this now, because I just saw this via a post that Patrick Larkin made over the weekend — Amanda Ripley’s intriguing talk on education reform — that contains the following excerpt (bolding/emphasis DSC):
The video concludes with the following takeaways from these conversations:
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- In the top performing countries in the world school is harder.
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- No country is like the US with its obsession of playing sports.
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- Kids (in schools in these other countries) believe there’s something in it for them.
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- Kids believe that what they are doing in school impacts their futures.