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To math education, says khan, is that students carry on gaps in their knowledge throughout their math careers. making it hard to get the more advanced concepts. 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 a mastery...

Surprising to them and to us the levels that they were reaching. and it was fascinating just to watch them be free, to have that freedom to explore on their own. >> one crucial discovery thordarson made was that it made a lot of sense for students to watch the videos at home. >> woohoo! victory! >> it is the reverse of the current system where students spend valuable class time simply getting the basic information from the teacher. copying notes. >> now theyre able to do the problems, which are ...

Math careers. making it hard to get the more advanced concepts. 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 stude...

Watch them be free, to have that freedom to explore on their own. >> one crucial discovery thordarson made was that it made a lot of sense for students to watch the videos at home. >> woohoo! victory! >> it is the reverse of the current system where students spend valuable class time simply getting the basic information from the teacher. copying notes. >> now theyre able to do the problems, which are really the most important part of the learning process, theyre able to do the problems with othe...

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...

Offer. >> we saw kids exploring areas that we didnt know they could. i mean, it was -- it was surprising to them and to us the levels that they were reaching. and it was fascinating just to watch them be free, to have that freedom to explore on their own. >> one crucial discovery thordarson made was that it made a lot of sense for students to watch the videos at home. >> woohoo! victory! >> it is the reverse of the current system where students spend valuable class time simply getting the basic ...

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...