the geography of smart
In the spring of 2000,a third of a million teenagers in forty-three countries sat down for two hours and took a test unlike any
they had ever seen.This strange new called PISA,which stood for the Program for International Student Assessment. Instead
of the 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.