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Geraldine Woods - Grammarian in the City: Snarky Remarks on Language I See and Hear in New York City. This is episode 670 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Geraldine Woods has taught every level of English from 5th grade through adult writing classes. She's the author of more than 50 books, including English Grammar for Dummies, 3rd Edition, All-in-One English Grammar for Dummies, and 1001 Grammar Practice Questions for Dummies, 2nd edition (all published by Wiley). She also wrote 25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way and Sentence. A Period-to-Period Guide to Building Better Readers and Writers, both published by WW Norton. She blogs at www.grammarianinthecity.com about current trends in language and ridiculous signs she encounters on her walks around New York City. Her current favorite sign reads, “Pay inside before entering.” We previously talked on episode 371- About your two books “25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way” and “Sentence: A Period-to-Period Guide to Building Better Readers and Writers”.  Our focus today is Geraldine's blog Grammarian in the City. What a fun talk! Grammarian in the City is a fun read! Thanks for listening! Before you go... You could help support this podcast by Buying Me A Coffee. Not really buying me something to drink but clicking on the link on my home page at https://stevenmiletto.com for Buy Me a Coffee or by going to this link Buy Me a Coffee. This would allow you to donate to help the show address the costs associated with producing the podcast from upgrading gear to the fees associated with producing the show. That would be cool. Thanks for thinking about it.  Hey, I've got another favor...could you share the podcast with one of your friends, colleagues, and family members? Hmmm? What do you think? Thank you! You are AWESOME! Thanks so much! Connect & Learn More: https://www.grammarianinthecity.com/ https://www.stevenmiletto.com/371 https://www.instagram.com/woodswriterg/ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010441337193 https://www.linkedin.com/in/geraldine-woods-6783b835/ Length - 38:11

Amanda Ripley is a New York Times bestselling author, journalist, and co-founder of Good Conflict, a media and training company that helps people reimagine conflict. As the violence abroad and at home escalates, Ripley and Patel discuss “high conflict” – what it is, how it impacts individuals and society, and ways to resolve high-conflict situations.GUEST BIO: Amanda has spent her career trying to make sense of complicated human mysteries by following survivors of all kinds. Her most recent book is High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out, winner of a 2022 Christopher Award. Her previous books include The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why, which was published in 15 countries and turned into a PBS documentary, and The Smartest Kids in the World—and How They Got That Way, a New York Times bestseller which was also turned into a documentary film. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, Slate, The Guardian, the Harvard Business Review, and the Times of London. Her stories helped Time win two National Magazine Awards. Previously, she served as an Emerson Collective Senior Fellow and the host of the weekly Slate podcast How To!You can tune in to all episodes on our website, Apple, Spotify, and wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts. New episodes drop every Tuesday at 5 a.m. CST. 

“This is one of the most important books that will be published in 2021. The Covid vaccine will soon free humanity from a biological pandemic, and this book, if widely read, could free humanity from an equally deadly scourge—high conflict.” — Jonathan Haidt, Social psychologist, Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University Stern School of Business, and author CThe Coddling of the American Mind Amanda Ripley is an investigative journalist and a New York Times bestselling author. She's spent her career trying to make sense of complicated human mysteries, from what happens to our brains in a disaster to how some countries manage to educate virtually all their kids to think for themselves. Her first book, The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why, was published in 15 countries and turned into a PBS documentary. Her next book, The Smartest Kids in the World—and How They Got That Way, was a New York Times bestseller. Amanda's most recent book is High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out, published by Simon & Schuster in April 2021. In her books and magazine writing, Amanda combines storytelling with data to help illuminate hard problems—and solutions. To do this, she usually follows people who have been through some kind of a transformation—including the survivors of hurricanes and plane crashes, American teenagers who have gone to high school in other countries and people who were bewitched by toxic conflicts and managed to break free. (from https://www.amandaripley.com/about-amanda) Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55713052-high-conflict Connect with Audiobook Reviews in 5: · Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/audiobook_reviews_podcast/ · Twitter: @janna_ca · Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AudiobookReviewsInFiveMinutes · Anchor: https://anchor.fm/audiobookreviews · Audiobook Reviews in Five Minutes website: https://podcast.jannastam.com/ · Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/jannastam Audio production by Graham Stephenson Episode music: Caprese by Blue Dot Sessions Rate, review, and subscribe to this podcast on Apple, Anchor, Breaker, Google, Overcast, Pocket Casts, RadioPublic, and Spotify This episode was first released in May 2021

“This is one of the most important books that will be published in 2021. The Covid vaccine will soon free humanity from a biological pandemic, and this book, if widely read, could free humanity from an equally deadly scourge—high conflict.” — Jonathan Haidt, Social psychologist, Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University Stern School of Business, and author CThe Coddling of the American Mind Amanda Ripley is an investigative journalist and a New York Times bestselling author. She's spent her career trying to make sense of complicated human mysteries, from what happens to our brains in a disaster to how some countries manage to educate virtually all their kids to think for themselves. Her first book, http://www.amandaripley.com/books/the-unthinkable (The Unthinkable:) Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why, was published in 15 countries and turned into a PBS documentary. Her next book,  http://www.amandaripley.com/books/the-smartest-kids-in-the-world (The Smartest Kids in the World)—and How They Got That Way, was a New York Times bestseller. Amanda's most recent book is https://www.amazon.com/High-Conflict-Why-Get-Trapped/dp/1982128569 (High Conflict: )Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out, published by Simon & Schuster in April 2021. In her books and magazine writing, Amanda combines storytelling with data to help illuminate hard problems—and solutions. To do this, she usually follows people who have been through some kind of a transformation—including the survivors of hurricanes and plane crashes, American teenagers who have gone to high school in other countries and people who were bewitched by toxic conflicts and managed to break free. (from https://www.amandaripley.com/about-amanda (https://www.amandaripley.com/about-amanda)) Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55713052-high-conflict (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55713052-high-conflict) Connect with Audiobook Reviews in 5: · Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/audiobook_reviews_podcast/ (https://www.instagram.com/audiobook_reviews_podcast/) · Twitter: @janna_ca · Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AudiobookReviewsInFiveMinutes (https://www.facebook.com/AudiobookReviewsInFiveMinutes) · Anchor: https://anchor.fm/audiobookreviews (https://anchor.fm/audiobookreviews) · Audiobook Reviews in Five Minutes website: https://podcast.jannastam.com/ (https://podcast.jannastam.com/) · Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/jannastam (https://www.goodreads.com/jannastam) Audio production by Graham Stephenson Episode music: Caprese by https://www.sessions.blue/ (Blue Dot Sessions) Rate, review, and subscribe to this podcast on Apple, Anchor, Breaker, Google, Overcast, Pocket Casts, RadioPublic, and Spotify This episode was first released in May 2021

Amanda Ripley: High Conflict Amanda Ripley is an investigative journalist and a New York Times bestselling author. She's spent her career trying to make sense of complicated human mysteries, from what happens to our brains in a disaster to how some countries manage to educate virtually all their kids to think for themselves. Her first book, The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why*, was published in 15 countries and turned into a PBS documentary. Her next book, The Smartest Kids in the World—and How They Got That Way*, was a New York Times bestseller. Her most recent book is High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out*. In this conversation, Amanda and I discuss the distinction between good, healthy conflict — and high conflict that becomes unproductive for almost everybody. We discuss how humiliation is often such a strong catalyst for high conflict. Finally, we explore many of the practical steps to take in order to avoid the worst conflicts and do better for ourselves and our organizations. Key Points Good conflict often brings surprises, but high conflict is surprisingly predictable. Humiliation is one of the most powerful fire starters in triggering high conflict. Limit humiliation by avoiding attacks on someone's identity, especially in a public forum. Distancing yourself from “conflict entrepreneurs” can help provide the space to emerge from high conflict. Resist binaries and us vs. them language. When people get sorted into two groups, that can lay a foundation for high conflict. Slowing down conflict can often provide the opportunity to emerge with productive dialogue. Resources Mentioned High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out* by Amanda Ripley Related Episodes How to Listen When Someone Is Venting, with Mark Goulston (episode 91) How to Deal with Opponents and Adversaries, with Peter Block (episode 328) How to Find Confidence in Conflict, with Kwame Christian (episode 380) Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

Amanda Ripley: High Conflict Amanda Ripley is an investigative journalist and a New York Times bestselling author. She's spent her career trying to make sense of complicated human mysteries, from what happens to our brains in a disaster to how some countries manage to educate virtually all their kids to think for themselves. Her first book, The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why*, was published in 15 countries and turned into a PBS documentary. Her next book, The Smartest Kids in the World—and How They Got That Way*, was a New York Times bestseller. Her most recent book is High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out*. In this conversation, Amanda and I discuss the distinction between good, healthy conflict — and high conflict that becomes unproductive for almost everybody. We discuss how humiliation is often such a strong catalyst for high conflict. Finally, we explore many of the practical steps to take in order to step aside from the worst conflicts and do better for ourselves and our organizations. Key Points Good conflict often brings surprises, but high conflict is surprisingly predictable. Humiliation is one of the most powerful fire starters in triggering high conflict. Limit humiliation by avoiding attacks on someone's identity, especially in a public forum. Distancing yourself from “conflict entrepreneurs” can help provide the space to emerge from high conflict. Resist binaries and us vs. them language. When people get sorted into two groups, that can lay a foundation for high conflict. Slowing down conflict can often provide the opportunity to emerge with productive dialogue. Resources Mentioned High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out* by Amanda Ripley Related Episodes How to Listen When Someone Is Venting, with Mark Goulston (episode 91) How to Deal with Opponents and Adversaries, with Peter Block (episode 328) How to Find Confidence in Conflict, with Kwame Christian (episode 380) Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

“This is one of the most important books that will be published in 2021. The Covid vaccine will soon free humanity from a biological pandemic, and this book, if widely read, could free humanity from an equally deadly scourge—high conflict.” — Jonathan Haidt, Social psychologist, Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University Stern School of Business, and author CThe Coddling of the American Mind Amanda Ripley is an investigative journalist and a New York Times bestselling author. She’s spent her career trying to make sense of complicated human mysteries, from what happens to our brains in a disaster to how some countries manage to educate virtually all their kids to think for themselves. Her first book, The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why, was published in 15 countries and turned into a PBS documentary. Her next book, The Smartest Kids in the World—and How They Got That Way, was a New York Times bestseller. Amanda’s most recent book is High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out, published by Simon & Schuster in April 2021. In her books and magazine writing, Amanda combines storytelling with data to help illuminate hard problems—and solutions. To do this, she usually follows people who have been through some kind of a transformation—including the survivors of hurricanes and plane crashes, American teenagers who have gone to high school in other countries and people who were bewitched by toxic conflicts and managed to break free. (from https://www.amandaripley.com/about-amanda) Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55713052-high-conflict Audio production by Graham Stephenson Episode music: Caprese by Blue Dot Sessions Rate, review, and subscribe to this podcast on Apple, Anchor, Breaker, Google, Overcast, Pocket Casts, RadioPublic, and Spotify

“This is one of the most important books that will be published in 2021. The Covid vaccine will soon free humanity from a biological pandemic, and this book, if widely read, could free humanity from an equally deadly scourge—high conflict.” — Jonathan Haidt, Social psychologist, Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University Stern School of Business, and author CThe Coddling of the American Mind Amanda Ripley is an investigative journalist and a New York Times bestselling author. She's spent her career trying to make sense of complicated human mysteries, from what happens to our brains in a disaster to how some countries manage to educate virtually all their kids to think for themselves. Her first book, http://www.amandaripley.com/books/the-unthinkable (The Unthinkable:) Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why, was published in 15 countries and turned into a PBS documentary. Her next book,  http://www.amandaripley.com/books/the-smartest-kids-in-the-world (The Smartest Kids in the World)—and How They Got That Way, was a New York Times bestseller. Amanda's most recent book is https://www.amazon.com/High-Conflict-Why-Get-Trapped/dp/1982128569 (High Conflict: )Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out, published by Simon & Schuster in April 2021. In her books and magazine writing, Amanda combines storytelling with data to help illuminate hard problems—and solutions. To do this, she usually follows people who have been through some kind of a transformation—including the survivors of hurricanes and plane crashes, American teenagers who have gone to high school in other countries and people who were bewitched by toxic conflicts and managed to break free. (from https://www.amandaripley.com/about-amanda (https://www.amandaripley.com/about-amanda)) Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55713052-high-conflict (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55713052-high-conflict) Audio production by Graham Stephenson Episode music: Caprese by https://www.sessions.blue/ (Blue Dot Sessions) Rate, review, and subscribe to this podcast on Apple, Anchor, Breaker, Google, Overcast, Pocket Casts, RadioPublic, and Spotify

  Geraldine Woods talks with me about her two books - 25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way and Sentence: A Period to Period Guide to Building Better Readers and Writers. This is episode 371 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Geraldine Woods has taught English at every level from fifth grade through Advanced Placement, most recently at the Horace Mann School. She is the author of numerous nonfiction books for adults and children, including English Grammar For Dummies, English Grammar Workbook For Dummies, Webster’s New World Punctuation: Simplified and Applied, 25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way and Sentence: A Period to Period Guide to Building Better Readers and Writers. She has an awesome blog - Grammarian in the City: Snarky remarks on language I see and hear in New York City. You have to read the blog posts about signs. She notes that “I am obsessed with words and language. I play Scrabble, do crossword puzzles, and walk into traffic when I’m trying to decide why “flammable” and “inflammable” mean the same thing.” She lives in New York City. So much to learn today! Thanks for listening! Enjoy. But wait... Could you do me a favor? Please go to my website at https://www.stevenmiletto.com/reviews/ or open the podcast app that you are listening to me on and would you rate and review the podcast? Please? That would be Awesome. Thanks! Remember to take a look at NVTA (National Virtual Teacher Association) The NVTA Certification Process was created to establish a valid and reliable research-based teacher qualification training process for virtual teachers to enhance their teaching and develop their ongoing reflective skills to improve teaching capacity. NVTA is an affiliate sponsor of Teaching Learning Leading K12, by following the link above if you purchase a program, Teaching Learning Leading K12 will get a commission and you will help the show continue to grow.  By the way, don't forget to go to my other affiliate sponsor Boon's Titanium Rings at www.boonerings.com. When you order a ring use my code - TLLK12 - at checkout to get 10% off and help the podcast get a commission. Thanks!!!   Connect & Learn More: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393714814 https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324004851 https://wwnorton.com/author/22618 https://www.linkedin.com/in/geraldine-woods-6783b835/ http://www.grammarianinthecity.com/ https://d1p374horjtxgn.cloudfront.net/catalog-site/pdfs/NPB/EDU/Woods_Gerri_Sentence_PR.pdf Length - 35:59

This week, Liberty and Tirzah discuss Raybearer, The Less Dead, Betty, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life; Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community; and Flatiron Books, publisher of His & Hers by Alice Feeney. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko The Less Dead by Denise Mina Betty: A Novel by Tiffany McDaniel   The Switch by Beth O’Leary  Ikenga by Nnedi Okorafor Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy by Kelly Jensen  Soul Full of Coal Dust: The True Story of an Epic Battle for Justice by Chris Hamby Six Angry Girls by Adrienne Kisner WHAT WE’RE READING: Unpregnant by Jeni Hendricks and Ted Caplan Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife by Ariel Sabar The Last Banner: The Story of the 1985-86 Celtics and the NBA’s Greatest Team of All Time by Peter May No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From by Jennifer De Leon The Second Mother: A Novel by Jenny Milchman Treason: A Sallie Bingham Reader by Sallie Bingham Blood World by Chris Mooney Nightshade: A novel by Annalena McAfee Displacement by Kiku Hughes Loathe at First Sight: A Novel by Suzanne Park  The Craft: How Freemasons Made the Modern World by John Dickie What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built WorldWhat Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World by Sara Hendren The Faithless Hawk (The Merciful Crow) by Margaret Owen I Want You by Lisa Hanawalt  The Flapper Queens: Women Cartoonists Of The Jazz Age by Trina Robbins Northernmost: A novel by Peter Geye Borges and Me: An Encounter by Jay Parini Three by D.A. Mishani, Jessica Cohen (translator) Assassin’s Strike by Ward Larsen  Be All In: What Sports Can Teach Us about Succeeding in Life by Christie Pearce Rampone, Dr. Kristine Keane Drowned Country (The Greenhollow Duology Book 2) by Emily Tesh Gideon’s Promise: A Public Defender Movement to Transform Criminal Justice by Jonathan Rapping The New American by Micheline Aharonian Marcom All Eyes on Her by L. E. Flynn Three Perfect Liars by Heidi Perks  The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls: A Novel by Ursula Hegi Villa of Delirium by Adrien Goetz, Natasha Lehrer (translator) The Heatwave by Kate Riordan Ordinary Hazards: A Novel by Anna Bruno Finish the Fight!: The Brave and Revolutionary Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote by Veronica Chambers, The Staff of The New York Times Atomic Love by Jennie Fields The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld 25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way by Geraldine Woods  Unwitting Street: Stories by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Joanne Turnbull (translator) The Way Out by Ricardo Piglia, Robert Croll (translator) 21 Immortals: Inspector Mislan and the Yee Sang Murders by Rozlan Mohd Noor Dopeworld: Adventures in the Global Drug Trade by Niko Vorobyov Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny by Debora L. Spar The Queen of Tuesday: A Novel by Darin Strauss Show Them You’re Good: A Portrait of Boys in the City of Angels the Year Before College by Jeff Hobbs Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn by Sanjay Sarma, Luke Yoquinto The Glass Kingdom: A Novel by Lawrence Osborne Grown Ups: A Novel by Emma Jane Unsworth Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy by Wolfram Eilenberger  Seven Days in Summer: A Novel by Marcia Willett The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir by Sara Seager The Second Wife by Rebecca Fleet Breathe the Sky by Michelle Hazen Thirteens by Kate Alice Marshall Good Dogs Don’t Make It to the South Pole: A Novel by Hans-Olav Thyvold, Marie Otsby (translator) Revolutionary Feminisms : Conversations on Collective Action and Radical Thought by Brenna Bhandar, Rafeef Ziadah Hysteria by Jessica Gross Etiquette for Runaways: A Novel by Liza Nash Taylor Impersonation by Heidi Pitlor The Dazzling Truth: A Novel by Helen Cullen  Losers: Dispatches from the Other Side of the Scoreboard by Mary Pilon and Louisa Thomas  What He Did in Solitary: Poems by Amit Majmudar Noumenon Ultra: A Novel by Marina J. Lostetter Royal: A Novel by Danielle Steel Anodyne by Khadijah Queen A Room Called Earth: A Novel by Madeleine Ryan Venus in the Blind Spot by Junji Ito Do What You Want: The Story of Bad Religion by Bad Religion, Jim Ruland Invisible Differences by Julie Dachez Black Bottom Saints: A Novel by Alice Randall Analogia: The Emergence of Technology Beyond Programmable Control by George Dyson Death at High Tide: An Island Sisters Mystery by Hannah Dennison The Wright Sister: A Novel by Patty Dann Skywatchers by Carrie Arcos Jackie and Maria: A Novel of Jackie Kennedy & Maria Callas by Gill Paul  Stealing Mt. Rushmore by Daphne Kalmar Isaiah Dunn is My Hero by Kelly J. Baptist Ignite the Sun by Hanna Howard  What Goes Up by Christine Heppermann The Vanished Queen by Lisbeth Campbell Middle Distance: Poems by Stanley Plumly Vicious Spirits by Kat Cho How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It by K. J. Parker  When These Mountains Burn by David Joy Little Disasters: A Novel by Sarah Vaughan This Is Not the End of Me: Lessons on Living from a Dying Man by Dakshana Bascaramurty Killing the Story: Journalists Risking Their Lives to Uncover the Truth in Mexico by Témoris Grecko, Diane Stockwell (translator) Little Deadly Secrets: A Novel by Pamela Crane Summer of the Cicadas by Chelsea Catherine  The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South by Chip Jones The Search Party by Simon Lelic  Fangirls: Scenes from Modern Music Culture by Hannah Ewens She’s My Dad! : A Story for Children Who Have a Transgender Parent or Relative Jillian Garcia (Illustrated by), Sarah Savage

Bill welcomes author and educator Geraldine Woods to the show. Geraldine  has taught and tutored every level of English from 5th grade through AP for more than four decades. She makes snarky comments on grammar and usage in her blog, www.grammarianinthecity.com. She is the author of more than 50 books, most recently, 25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way. She's written many Dummies books, including Basic English Grammar for Dummies, English Grammar for Dummies, English Grammar Workbook for Dummies, Research Papers For Dummies,College Admissions Essays For Dummies, and the SAT For Dummies. She also wrote AP English Literature and Composition, AP English Language and Composition, and Webster's New World Punctuation: Simplified and Applied. Don't miss it, or Geraldine will scold you!

Ali speaks this week with Amanda Ripley, a contributing writer to The Atlantic and a senior fellow at the Emerson Collective. She is the author  of “The Smartest Kids in the World – and How They Got That Way” and “The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes and Why.” Amanda recently profiled Watertown, New York, “The Least Politically Prejudiced Place in America.” She talked to Ali about her start in journalism, the importance of traditional institutions in civil life and meeting two lifelong friends named Ann in Watertown who are political opposites.

Lab Director, David Yokum, and best-selling author Amanda Ripley discuss how intuition is a busted compass when it comes to education. We just can't trust our gut when it comes to judging a school, a policy reform or a teacher. Why is our intuition so useless in this arena? And what can we do about it? About our guest: Amanda Ripley is a writer and a senior fellow at the Emerson Collective. She is the author, most recently, of The Smartest Kids in the World--and How They Got That Way, a New York Times bestseller. Her first book, The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes--and Why, was published in 15 countries and turned into a PBS documentary. In her books and magazine writing, Amanda explores the gap between public policy and human behavior. For Time and The Atlantic, she has written cover stories on the primacy of sports in American high schools, the college of the future and the science of motivating children. She has visited schools on four continents and interviewed hundreds of kids, teachers and parents. Amanda's work has also appeared in the New York Times, Slate, Politico, the Wall Street Journal and the Times of London. To discuss her writing, Amanda has appeared on ABC, NBC, CNN, FOX News and NPR.

Today’s guest, Amanda Ripley is an investigative journalist for Time Magazine and The Atlantic. Her reporting on education has explored the interaction between public policy and human behavior. In 2013 she published The Smartest Kids in the World--and How They Got That Way, a New York Times bestseller. Before I ever met Amanda, I was familiar with her work. Her October 2012 piece in Time Magazine on how massive open on-line courses were impacting higher education helped focus and shape the education policy conversation, as did her September 2013 piece in The Atlantic which focused on the outsized influence of sports in American high schools. This will be ORHigherEd’s first-ever, two-part series. Part 1 focused on Amanda’s reporting her cover story in The Atlantic titled, "The Upwardly Mobile Barista," and covered the Starbucks College Achievement Plan. Part 2 focuses on reporting she's done about education reforms around the world that have changed outcomes for students.

Today’s guest, Amanda Ripley is an investigative journalist for Time Magazine and The Atlantic. Her reporting on education has explored the interaction between public policy and human behavior. In 2013 she published The Smartest Kids in the World--and How They Got That Way, a New York Times bestseller. One of the biggest stories in higher ed in the past year has been the Starbucks College Achievement Plan, which offers tuition reimbursement for Starbucks employees at Arizona State University Online. Amanda has reported extensively on this story since Fall 2014 and the culminating cover story, The Upwardly Mobile Barista, was published this week on TheAtlantic.com. This will be ORHigherEd’s first ever two-part series. This episode is Part 1 and will focus on Amanda’s reporting for The Atlantic on the Starbucks College Achievement Plan and will include her thoughts on how Starbucks & ASU Online are approaching the challenges of delivering higher education in innovative ways.