Focusing on mastery, community, and collaboration, the Khan World School is at the forefront of rethinking the traditional education model. They recently announced a partnership to launch the Khan World School at ASU Prep, an online, global high school for students who have demonstrated strong academic potential but want to take their education to the next level. On this episode of “Tech Enabled,” John Bailey is joined by Salman Khan, founder and CEO of Khan Academy, and Amy McGrath, COO at Arizona State University (ASU) Prep. Returning to normal, but use the moment to rethink how we educate

National Parents Union found 53 percent of parents believe we should not be Upended many long standing assumptions about education and created room toĮxperiment with new approaches.

Students have fallen behindĪcademically and teachers are overstretched. Condemning the conventional approach of teaching all students the same thing at the same time he envisioned a world where every student could progress at their own pace and learn according to their strengths.Students returning to the classroom, the toll the pandemic has taken on ourĮducation system has only become more apparent. His new structure sounds like the fantasy of every schoolchild across the world-no homework, no grades, no fixed schedules or age-defined classes. For decades, people have been trying to reinvent the school system but Khan believes that the onset of the ‘tech revolution’ is what was needed to make the movement a reality, and in his book Khan outlined his dream for the ideal school environment. A few years ago he decided that although Khan Academy was showing tremendous results, it was no longer sufficient to for it to be a supplement to traditional teaching, and thus, in 2012 the concept of The One World Schoolhouse was born. When his system was implemented into schools in and around California, they found that the average grades went through a substantial jump, which made Khan think about new ways his organisation could improve world teaching.

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