Topic: Amanda Ripley

Author Amanda Ripley compares global education systems in her book, The Smartest Kids in the World, noting the success of Finland's low-tech approach. Conversely, Diane Ravitch argues in her work that the primary issue in U.S. education is poverty, not teaching methods. Ravitch criticizes the Gates-funded charter school movement as a fraud that fails to address the underlying socioeconomic challenges students face.