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	Podcast:		The Podcast @ DC
	Episode:		Amanda Ripley - How Intuition Is A Busted Compass When It Comes To Education
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:47:21
	Publish Date:		2017-11-03 00:00:00
	Description:		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.
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