The Smartest Kids in the World

A deep dive into The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley. A country can rank second in the world for spending per pupil and watch its fifteen-year-olds come in twenty-sixth in mathematics, seventeenth in science and twelfth in reading among OECD countries: that was where the United States stood in the 2012 PISA. The test, designed by Andreas Schleicher at the OECD, first sat in 2000 in thirty-two countries, with eleven more joining in 2002, then repeated every three years, does not ask what a pupil has retained from a national syllabus but what they can do with information they have never seen, partly through written answers rather than boxes ticked.… Read the full summary and listen to more books on Synopsia: https://synopsia.app