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Amanda Ripley is a respected journalist specializing in investigative and narrative journalism. She has written extensively on topics such as education, security, and technology, earning recognition for her insightful reporting and engaging storytelling. Her work has been honored with numerous awards and has shaped public discourse on key issues.

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“PISA was developed by a kind of think tank for the developed world, called the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the scientist at the center of the experiment was Andreas Schleicher.”

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Book:The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way

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“There were about as many superintendents in Oklahoma as there were members of Congress for the entire country. This tradition of hyperlocal control, hard-wired for inefficiency hinted at one reason that the United States spent so much more than other countries on education.”

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Book:The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way

Source: The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way

“Economists had found an almost one-to-one match between PISA scores and a nation's long term economic growth. Many other things influenced economic growth, of course, but the ability of a workforce to learn, think and adapt was the ultimate stimulus package...For students, PISA scores were a better predictor of who would go to college than report cards...PISA wasn't measuring memorization; it was measuring aspiration.”

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“This strange new test called PISA, which stood for the Program for International Student Assessment. Instead of a typical test question, which might ask which combination of coins you needed to buy something, PISA asked you to design your own coins, right there in the test booklet.”

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Book:The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way

Source: The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way

“Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent.”

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Book:The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way

Source: The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way

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