Up next from last weekends National Book festival, few authors from the science room for the number few hours hear from the scientists. First heres amanda rip lee, the author of the smartest kids in the world and how they got that it way. On behalf of the library of conditioning, welcome to the 2014 National Book festival. My name is carlos, and im editor of the judd outlook section of the washington post. The post has been the charter sponsor of the festival since it began in 2001. Hope youre enjoying the new location here at the convention center. Before we begin i should inform you the presentation are being filmed for the library of congress web site and archives so be on your best behavior. And there will be time for questions, and theres mics in the two rows here on either side. So just go up to the mic for your questions. It is my sincere honor to introduce Amanda Ripley. The first time the book festival has had a formal science pavilion, and its completely fitting the first boo
Side. So just go up to the mic for your questions. It is my sincere honor to introduce main da ripley. This is the first time the book festival has had a formal science pavilion and its completely fitting the first book were causing here is devoted to education and competing visions of how children learn. Amandas book takes to us finland, south korea, and poland, and observes how three highscoring, highly successful educational systems work, and what is unique is she does it through the eyes of three American Kids who are spending a year at each of those school systems. So it makes for a unique combination of her analysis and the insights that the High School Kids provide. Were doing the book in the washington post. Jay matthews wrote this is the most illuminating reporting ive seen on the differences between schools in america and abroad. The New York Times said in the best tradition of travel writing she gets beneath the glossy surface of cultures and makes our culture look strangely
But again. Got a lot of arrests here in times square. Deb feyerick. Top of the hour. Watching cnn tonight. 11 00 p. M. East coast. Live coverage of the protests that are happening all over the country this evening. You are looking at pictures now from times square. Meantime, go to cnns reporter, brook, you were in china town, near china town, whats going on where you are . Brooke baldwin. We have been walking with the people for six hours. We talked six miles. We have gone into brooklyn. Now back in manhattan. Ahead of me if you know the lay of the land, this is china town. We are about to watch the arrests. Surrounded by new york police. Who have given these hundreds of people all night long. The freedom. And the openness to walk around. To shut down. This group shut down the brooklyn bridge. We walked into brooklyn. The Group Shuttle down the manhattan bridge. We walked over the manhattan bridge. And i dont know, don. Walk with me. Well watch this together live. There are all cardboa