Statistics suggest we've fallen behind the rest of the world in literacy, math, and sciences. Parents and politicians routinely bemoan the state of our education system. Why we should be very optimistic about the future of learning.How we can bring creativity and true human interactivity back to learning.How and why we can afford to pay educators the same as other professionals.Why technology will make classrooms more human and teachers more important.How both students and teachers are being bound by a broken top-down model invented in Prussia two centuries ago.In these pages, you will discover, among other things:

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.

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. 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. Like many innovators, Khan rethinks existing assumptions and imagines what education could be if freed from them. 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. The creator of the revolutionary educational platform Khan Academy share his vision for the future of schooling and the major role that technology will play.Ī 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.

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