From an essay by Tina Podlodowski at Crosscut.
…..Ranking 48th among the 50 states in the percentage of our population enrolled in four-year schools at the undergraduate level deserves something extraordinary, wouldn’t we all agree?
Ms. Podlodowski . a former Microsoft Exec and Seattle City Council member, extols the Khan Academy, as a possible online, alternative modcl:
Kahn has no out-of-date text books, no fossilized curriculum, no bellicose school board to debate policy, just the core concepts required to thrive academically in a particular topic. Founder Sal Khan’s guiding belief is that “someone who truly understands the core concepts will thrive academically regardless of the curricular context. To take it a step further, someone who experiences the joy and satisfaction of true understanding will never again be satisfied with the superficial type of learning that most students have grown accustomed to.”