Book Review The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way by Amanda Ripley ISBN 1451654421

Before getting to the specific book, this is the first book I finished reading on eReader device. In my case it is Kindle. Somehow I still cannot quite equate reading on eReader with the experience of holding a paper book on hand. The sense of possession of the knowledge is just not as much holding a electronic device as holding an ink-on-paper book. Maybe it is just me.
Now back to our subject. The book is about 300 pages long, but excluding a lot of notes and references, it is a bout 180 pages. It is an enjoyable read about why American kids not faring well in PISA test and tracking three American high school exchange students experience in PISA superpowers Finland, Korea and Poland. If you are European parents or Asian parents living in America with high school kids at home and interested in education issue, you probably already had the same conclusion as the authors and there is really little gain reading the book.