The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way

Is this the best book I've read this year about education? Yes, it is. And I've read a lot of books this year about education. This one was best of all. It looked at education the way I like to look at things: it looked at education that works. Ripley studied the strong educational systems in three countries, Korea and Finland and Poland, and analyzed why each is so successful.

Lots of lessons here for those of us here in the US who want our children to get an excellent education.