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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of the beauty of a university is that every professor is given a lot of autonomy over what he or she does. That's also what makes it very hard for even a very forward-thinking president to change courses.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am infamously bad at asking for money.
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Suffice it to say that our over-reliance on testing is based largely on habit, wishful thinking, and leaps of faith.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every school is different and serves different populations.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm actually a bit of a technophobe, which surprises people. I like to stay unplugged as much as possible.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not the kind to hang out on Facebook or Twitter or even talk on the cellphone, really.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always asking people about their work. How do you do a job like that? Do you love it? What does it pay? I was lucky to have access to people who could answer my questions. Otherwise, my life could have turned out very differently.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the biggest ways to level the playing field is to give all young people the same context on what opportunities are out there. And that means touching on some of the questions that are a little taboo in society: How much money do you make? What are your stresses? What would you do differently if you could?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The math you need for most of finance is ninth-grade algebra, and most people feel reasonably comfortable with that. But I think the financial world there has been - I don't know if it's by design, or this is how it's evolved - there are bad actors who have wanted to obfuscate because you can benefit from the lack of transparency.
- Defer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Something happens in school sometimes where you're like, 'Oh, I'm not an expert, and I have to defer to people who are.' And it happens not just in school: it happens in religion, too. Defer to the experts. A printing press is a big deal - they got the Bible, and all of a sudden they could read it for themselves.
- Space
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one goes on a direct path, even though it sometimes feels like your peers might be racing ahead. Everyone's trying to figure it out. But if you just put yourself out there, step out of your comfort zone, establish yourself in terms of skills, mentorship, but leave space for your passions, then you're going to turn out pretty well.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Idaho, we hope to see educators using Khan Academy to individualize their instruction. Instead of a one-size-fits-all lesson, teachers will be able to focus their attention on specific students who are struggling while the rest of the class engages with material appropriate for them.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our mission at Khan Academy is a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere, and college readiness is a crucial part of that. We want to help as many students as possible prepare for college and for life, and since the SAT measures preparedness for college, our partnership with the College Board is a natural fit.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creating a clear and engaging video explanation of a complex concept is a great way to demonstrate mastery and to help others understand and love the subject, too.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
What you have in most education software is that they're catering to the decision-maker who makes the budget allocations, and that decision-maker has a lot of check boxes. Does it do this? Check. Does it do that? Check. They could care less about the end user experience.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's an old idea. It's arguably the first way that people learn, that, hey, if you need to learn something, if you're having trouble with it, keep working on it until you master it and then you go to a more advanced concept. But in the education systems that all of us grew up in, we all learned at a fixed pace.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of times, when kids have problems with algebra or trigonometry, it has nothing to do with the subject matter, has nothing to do with their innate intelligence. It's just they that they had some gaps in elementary school that they never got to fill in.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020