Malcolm Gladwell

overlook just how large a role we all play—and by “we” I mean society—in determining who makes it and who doesn’t.

You master mathematics if you are willing to try

Pearl River Delta

Sze Yap people

David Levin, who founded KIPP with a fellow teacher, Michael Feinberg, in 1994

In fact, one of the singular features of rice cultivation is that because of the nutrients carried by the water used in irrigation, the more a plot of land is cultivated, the more fertile it gets

Johns Hopkins University

California Achievement Test

he's putting in a few solid months of learning during the summer while she watches television and plays outside

They start school at seven twenty-five,” says David Levin of the students at the Bronx KIPP Academy. "They all do a course called thinking skills until seven fifty-five. They do ninety minutes of English, ninety minutes of math every day, except in fifth grade, where they do two hours of math a day. A n hour of science, an hour of social science, an hour of music at least twice a week, and then you have an hour and fifteen minutes of orchestra on top of that. Everyone does orchestra. The day goes from seven twenty-five until five p.m. After