Amanda RipleyUpcoming events hosted by Chattanooga 2.0
May 9: Sir Ken Robinson will speak at The Howard School at 6 p.m. His talk is titled “Building Creative Schools.”May 16: Chattanooga 2.0 will host a community conversation at the Bessie Smith Cultural Center. People are invited to drop in from 4-8 p.m. to discuss the initiative.June 2: Tiffany Anderson will speak at 5:30 p.m. Location to be determined, and her talk is titled “Putting Schools at the Center of a Community.”Each talk is open to the public free of charge. For more information visit chatt2.org/events.
Looking outside of the United States, reporter and author Amanda Ripley saw countries dramatically improving education for all students and felt a moral imperative to discover what was working.
Ripley decided to track three exchange students from the United States as they attended school in Korea, Finland and Poland – three countries outperforming the United States in education. She documented the findings in her book, “The Smartest Kids in the World,” a New York Times best-seller.
“These are very different places, but what I want to talk about is what they have in common,” Ripley told to a group of more than 150 gathered Tuesday night at the Church on Main.
Ripley is the second of four speakers to participate in the Chattanooga 2.0 speaker series, which is intended to engage the community in the work of improving public education and workforce development.