Tea Party Economist – Gary North
The state of Idaho ’s educational bureaucracy next year will allow
public school students in two dozen schools to take Khan Academy
It means:
- A state has tentatively accepted the idea that
online education that is provided by a legally independent third party who
is not in any way under control of the state’s educational establishment
may be as good as classroom education.
- A state has officially admitted publicly that a
tuition-free digital education may be equal academically to a campus-based
education that costs on average $11,000 a year in the
- A teacher with no certification by an education
department in any college may be equal to a certified teacher.
- The teachers’ union may not be academically
indispensable.
- Homeschooling may be as good as state-certified,
tax-funded, campus-based education.
- The students will probably do as well or better
than students who do not use
- This is a pass/fail test for public education.
If
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Online-academy-classes-to-be-tested-in-ID-schools-4152085.php
SFGate – AP – 12/28/2012
NAMPA, Idaho (AP) — Starting
next fall, Idaho students could have the option of taking math, history and
other online classes provided by the Khan
Academy, the online content nonprofit that provides courses free to anyone,
anytime and anywhere.
Education officials with Northwest
Nazarene University and the J.A.
and Kathryn Albertson Foundation say they are arranging to have Khan
Academy classes tested in about two dozen public schools next fall.
The Khan Academy
"Primarily we have a
group of faculty that are educators, from the education department that will be
looking at the curriculum that (teachers) are already using and see how Khan
can support that," Eric
Kellerer, director of the NNU
Center of Innovation for Teaching and Learning, told the Idaho
Press Tribune (http://bit.ly/U6hE1w).
"Khan is not a curriculum. It's one more tool into the mix so they can
help students have better achievement scores."
Each school could receive
anywhere from $10,000 to $50,000 to implement the program depending on the
number of students and teachers, university officials said.
Eric Kellerer said NNU will
provide any training necessary for teachers to use the resource, but said it is
as simple as simple gets. The site features more than 3,000 few-minute videos —
from basic addition to trigonometry and calculus in math.
“(Students) begin to walk
through it with practice — an infinite number, really, of practice questions,”
Eric Kellerer said. “It is a system that is intuitive enough, that it knows
when you’ve mastered that skill. When you really mastered that skill, it will
ask you to move on (to a more difficult skill).”
50 percent of students
entering college are not fully prepared in mathematics and Khan Academy
He said education costs lots
of money, and finding ways to lessen the cost should be a priority, something Khan Academy
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