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The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills our Children Need---and What We Can Do About it by Tony Wagner

The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills our Children Need---and What We Can Do About it: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills our Children Need---and What We Can Do About it runs 10.5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Paul Costanzo (about 7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

10.5listening hrs
Non-Fictionstore shelf
2011released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 10.5 hours of listening.

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What our data says

  • At 10.5 hours, it runs longer than 78% of the 39,028 Non-Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills our Children Need---and What We Can Do About it is an audiobook by Tony Wagner: a 10.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Paul Costanzo, released December 19, 2011, on the Non-Fiction shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
10.5 hrs
Narrated by
Paul Costanzo
Released
December 19, 2011
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Non-Fiction
ISBN
9781452675534

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills our Children Need---and What We Can Do About it as an audiobook?

The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills our Children Need---and What We Can Do About it runs 10.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7 hours.

Is The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills our Children Need---and What We Can Do About it free as an audiobook?

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Who narrates The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills our Children Need---and What We Can Do About it?

The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills our Children Need---and What We Can Do About it is narrated by Paul Costanzo.

Is The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills our Children Need---and What We Can Do About it worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7 hours, saving 3.5 hours.