Khan Academy

While American's celebrate Labor Day, the traditional end of summer, the rest of the world must earn their daily bread. To assist your efforts, I'll share one of the more interesting things I've come across in a while, better late than never. The first part is a video from the television program 60 Minutes.



The segment is about Khan Academy, a non profit, web based educational tool. Their mission is "to provide a free world class education to anyone anywhere. I despised almost every day I ever spent in a classroom, this may have made a difference.

Khan's approach to education is Competency ie Mastery based vs traditional, bell curved General Education. The debate over which is better has raged for decades. Your answer will depend upon who's ox is being gored, your child's or your school.

Enjoy.

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