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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. Meanwhi 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 26th. Whats odd is that weve been outspendin...

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 can't 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 they've gotten to a certain level of proficiency or a mastery on a base level. >> if we let students learn at their own pace, what does that do to the traditio...

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 can't 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 they've 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 traditional classroom model? it's turned ups...

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 can't 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 they've 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 traditional classroom model? it's turned upsidedown. which is exactly what we need to do. last fall, los alt...

Been michelle rhee, the former chancellor of washington, d.c.'s, public school system, one of the nation's worst performing school districts at the time she took over. >> in 2007 the education world went into a frenzy over the possibility that michelle rhee could actually turn around the school district. >> featured in the lightning rod documentary "waiting for superman" rhee turned the school system upsidedown, firing dozens of schoolteachers and closing 27 schools. you famously clashed with the unions while you were in office. do you think still in retrospect and looking forward, are teacher...