The Smartest Kids in the World (48 page)
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Authors: Amanda Ripley
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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition August 2013
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Designed by Nancy Singer
Jacket design and illustration by Tom McKeveny
Illustrations by John Del Gaizo
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ripley, Amanda.
The smartest kids in the world : and how they got that way / Amanda Ripley.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Comparative education. 2. Education—Finland. 3. Education—Korea (South)
4. Education—Poland. I.
Title.
LB43.R625 2013
370.9—dc23
2013002021
ISBN 978-1-4516-5442-4
ISBN 978-1-4516-5444-8 (ebook)
PHOTO CREDITS
Page 3
: Hanushek and Woessmann,
The Knowledge Capital of Nations
Page 13
: OECD/Michael Dean
Page 21
: OECD (2009), Take the Test: Sample Questions from OECD’s PISA Assessments, PISA, OECD Publishing;
http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264050815-en
Page 26
: Courtesy of Kim’s family
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: Amanda Ripley
Page 124
: Adam Lach/Napo Images
Page 169
: Jean Chung
