As a young girl, Caterina Sforza dreamed of great deeds that she would be a part of as a member of the illustrious Sforza family of Milan. Born in 1463, Caterina was the daughter out of wedlock of a beautiful Milanese noblewoman and Galeazzo Maria Sforza, who became Duke of Milan upon the death of […]
Growing up in a staunchly middle-class black neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia, Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) had a pleasant and carefree childhood. His father, Martin Sr., was the pastor of the large and thriving Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, so the Kings were relatively well off. His parents were loving and devoted to their children. […]
My father did not graduate from college. He was too busy working and building his business, but he understood and appreciated the value of an education. He had great respect for people with college degrees, even though he had built a large real estate business and earned many times more than most of them. With […]
In late 1857, Maurice B. Clark, a twenty-eight-year-old Englishman living in Cleveland, Ohio, made the most important decision yet in his young life: he would quit his comfortable job as a high-level buyer and seller for a produce firm and start his own business in the same line. He had the ambition of becoming yet […]
In action research, as with all research, the first step is to determine what is to be investigated. Your focus should be on your own practice, involve something within your locus of control, be about something you feel passionate about, and provide answers to something you would like to change or improve. CATEGORIES OF ACTION […]
Please bear with me now as I segue into a very different sort of intersection between the Khan Academy and the real world— the real world of grown-ups interested in lifelong learning and in maintaining active minds. Back in 2008, when the worldwide credit crisis was paralyzing markets and causing banks to fail, I, like […]
Teens in Motion adopts the orientations of the Communicative Language Teaching approach, which focuses on developing students’ communicative competence through the use of pair and group work activities, role-plays, and project work. It also includes contributions of other approaches, especially the Task Based Learning and the Cooperative Language Learning. Quoting Richards, “students are asked to […]
My name is Sal Khan. I’m the founder and original faculty of the Khan Academy, an institution serious about delivering a free education to anyone, anywhere, and I’m writing this book because I believe that the way we teach and learn is at a once-a-millennium turning point. The old classroom model simply doesn’t fit our […]
A few short years ago, Khan Academy was known only to a handful of middle-school kids—relatives and family friends. How and why, from those intimate beginnings, did awareness of the site spread to a worldwide community of people of all ages and economic conditions who were hungry to learn? W hy did students tell their […]
The American Society for Quality (ASQ) has long promoted quality in elementary education through a program entitled Koalaty Kid. It was an outgrowth of activities at Frederick C. Carder Elementary School in Corning, New York, where Fred the Koala appeared throughtout the school on bulletin boards, at assemblies, in the cafeteria, and in the classrooms. […]