A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere: this is the
goal of the Khan Academy, a passion project that grew from an
ex-engineer and hedge funder's online tutoring sessions with his
niece, who was struggling with algebra, into a worldwide
phenomenon. Today millions of students, parents, and teachers use
the Khan Academy's free videos and software, which have expanded to
encompass nearly every conceivable subject; and Academy techniques
are being employed with exciting results in a growing number of
classrooms around the globe.
Like many innovators, Khan rethinks existing assumptions and
imagines what education could be if freed from them. And his core
idea-liberating teachers from lecturing and state-mandated
calendars and opening up class time for truly human interaction-has
become his life's passion. Schools seek his advice about connecting
to students in a digital age, and people of all ages and
backgrounds flock to the site to utilize this fresh approach to
learning.
In THE ONE WORLD SCHOOLHOUSE, Khan presents his radical vision for
the future of education, as well as his own remarkable story, for
the first time. In these pages, you will discover, among other
things:
How both students and teachers are being bound by a broken top-down
model invented in Prussia two centuries agoWhy technology will make
classrooms more human and teachers more importantHow and why we can
afford to pay educators the same as other professionalsHow we can
bring creativity and true human interactivity back to learningWhy
we should be very optimistic about the future of learning.Parents
and politicians routinely bemoan the state of our education system.
Statistics suggest we've fallen behind the rest of the world in
literacy, math, and sciences. With a shrewd reading of history,
Khan explains how this crisis presented itself, and why a return to
"mastery learning," abandoned in the twentieth century and
ingeniously revived by tools like the Khan Academy, could offer the
best opportunity to level the playing field, and to give all of our
children a world-class education now.
More than just a solution, THE ONE WORLD SCHOOLHOUSE serves as a
call for free, universal, global education, and an explanation of
how Khan's simple yet revolutionary thinking can help achieve this
inspiring goal.
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