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The key to overcoming that problem is to let students learn at their own pace. khan academy offers students a quiz after each video, and they cant pass a level until they get ten out of ten questions right. >> let everyone learn at their own pace. only move on to a concept once theyve gotten to a certain level of proficiency or mastery on a base level. so that their tool kit is strong for that more advanced thing. >> if we let students learn at their own pace, what does that do to the traditiona...

in 2007 we spent over $10,000 per student. versus the $7,400 average for rich countries. how can we spend so much money and have so little to show for it? well ask that question and others to some of the leading figures in american education. here on this special and in a time essay. well examine the roll of teachers, testing and technology and well ask the man who spend billions of dollars trying to fix education about how hes spending his money, microsoft founder and philanthropist, ...

a country. indeed our democracy depends on an educated citizenry. lets take a look. 100 american kids entering high school, what does fate have in store for them? 25 out of that hundred wont graduate from high school, a total of 50 wont go to college. thats half the class that wont go on to higher education. 50 will attends college, but only 22 will graduate within six years. meanwhile other countries are outsmarting us. on a recent international test, u.s. students ranked only 15th in...

100 representative american kids entering high school. what does fate have in store for them? 25 out of that 100 wont graduate from high school. a total of 50 wont go to college. thats half the class that wont go on to higher education. 50 will attend college, but only 22 will graduate within six years. meanwhile, other countries are outsmarting us. on a recent international test, u.s. students ranked only 15th in the world in reading, 23rd in science and 31st in math. overall, the wor...

lets talk about what he gets bailed out. we do know that just about half an hour ago his wife left his home which is located about 20 minutes from now. not sure if thats any sort of indication in terms of whether or not he might be released soon. currently being held on $250,000 bail. if hes able to post bail, don, hell be unvery tight restrictions. hell essentially be under house arrest. hell have to wear an electronic monitoring device while hes under house arrest. in addition to tha...

how would a president romney or gingrich or cain handle a situation like this? that is the kind of topic the republican candidates will debate tonight. its focus will be foreign policy and national security. cnn, the heritage foundation and the american enterprise institute will bring it to you from washington tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern. were talking to our deputy political director paul steinhauser, pentagon correspondent chris lawrence and joe johns at constitution hall where the d...

It. herman cain came off looking prickly and going after reporters. his strange response of saying 9-9-9. he is taking the wrong approach and its showing up in the polls. americans want to know their presidential candidate has a base level of knowledge about the world and the country. >> i think she is right. cain was at it again, claiming that a command of facts is not essential to be president of the greatest country in the world. listen to this. >> who knows every detail of every country of e...

what does fate have in store for them? 25 out of that 100 wont graduate from high school. a total of 50 wont go to college. thats half the class that wont go on to higher education. 50 will attend college, but only 22 will graduate within six years meanwhile, other countries are outstarting us. on a recent international test, u.s. students ranked only 15th in the world in reading, 23rd in science and 31st in math. overall, the world economic forum ranks the quality of our education at ...

now "my take." the european crisis you have been reading about in the newspapers is worth watching very carefully. it has now morphed into something much bigger than a european crisis. it could batter the entire global economy, which is pretty fragile anyway. you read a lot about greece. the real problem is italy. you see, greece is a nano state and makes up about 2% of the european unions gross domestic problem. italy, on the other hand, is one of the seven or eight largest economies ...

pacific. now my take. the european crisis you have been reading about in the newspapers is worth watching carefully. it has now morphed into something much bigger than a european crisis. it could batter the entire global economy which is pretty fragile anyway. you read a lot about greece. the real problem is italy. you see, greece is a nano state and makes up 2% of the european unions gross domestic problem. italy is one of the seven or eight largest economies in the world. its debts...