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TED 2011: The Khan Academy – How a Hedge-Fund Manager became Isaac Newton to provide a new way for students to learn math and science.

Salman Khan isn’t the sort of person you’d expect to devise a revolutionary education system.

The former hedge fund manager is as surprised as anyone that a series of videos he began posting online in 2004 have had such a profound effect on strangers around the world and have provided a new way for students to learn math and science.

The Khan Academy http://www.khanacademy.org/ , which he launched with a small team of software developers, has more than 2,000 videos on math, science and economics but now also offers accompanying online lessons that use an interactive approach to allow students to learn at their own pace and stick with problems they find difficult until they master them.

By Kim Zetter

Full Story: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/03/salman-khan-at-ted/all/1

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Knocking schools: Do critics, big foundations have tunnel vision? – Why Pre-Natal to Pre-K Education is so very important yet still neglected.

Students in U.S. schools where the poverty rate was less than 10% ranked first in reading, first in science and third in math. When the poverty rate was 10 to 25%, U.S. students still ranked first in reading and science. But as the poverty rate rose higher still, students ranked lower and lower. Twenty percent of all U.S. schools have poverty rates over 75% . . . And as dozens of studies have shown, the gap in cognitive, physical and social development between children in poverty and middle-class children is set by age three.

http://matr.net/article-43519.html

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