THE SMARTEST KIDS IN THE WORLD

"What The Smartest Kids in the World suggests is that not everyone is smart in the same way, and that America might benefit if it stopped trying to shoehorn all its children into the same dubious mold." - John Anderson, Wall Street Journal Education • High School • Coming of Age • Youth Perspectives • Exchange Programs • U.S Perspective Abroad Date of Completion: 2021 | Run Time: 97 minutes​​ | Language: English | Captions: Yes | Includes: Transcript | Producer & Director: Tracy Droz Tragos | Producer: Shannon E. Riggs In many ways, THE SMARTEST KIDS IN THE WORLD is a classic coming-of-age, road-trip film – wide eyed U.S. high school kids, recognizably American in their bravado, setting out to discover the world. What each of them knows at the beginning of their journey as a foreign exchange student is that something is missing in their public high school in the United States. They are not getting what they need and want. They are in various ways stuck, or bored, or unchallenged