![]() ![]() But once we got past that, she got unit conversion. I started remote tutoring her, and it was unit conversion that she was having trouble with and, you know, first had to overcome her lack of confidence. And so I was convinced that I- I might be able to help her. And it just came out of conversation that my 12 year old cousin Nadia was having trouble with math. I had just gotten married and my family from New Orleans was visiting for the wedding. In 2004, I was a year out of business school. But I've always had this interest in education. And then after business school, as you mentioned, I ended up working in finance. The- you know, my original background out of undergrad was in technology and software. KHAN: Two sentences, that' s pretty good. MARGARET BRENNAN: In two sentences, your life. "Facing Forward": Khan Academy's Sal Khan transcript And I'm feeling optimistic that in the next three to five years, this- we- we won't completely solve this, but it will be mitigated to a large degree."Äownload, rate and subscribe here: Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher On bridging the digital divide in the wake of COVID-19: "If there is a silver lining on this front because of COVID is that there's never been more energy behind this.On post-COVID "disaster recovery": "I think we have to make the best of the constraints that we have now, but as we start to get out of this COVID period, it really does have to be viewed as a disaster recovery project because these gaps that these kids are accumulating and this lack of self-esteem and what's hitting them socially and emotionally, this will have long lasting repercussions for- for decades if we don't- if we don't try to fix it.".So I'll be the first to say that pure online or distance learning is- cannot be a substitute for an amazing in-person teacher." On remote learning replacing in-person lessons: "I'll be the first to say that if I had to pick for myself or my own children or anyone else's children between an in-person amazing teacher- if I had to pick between that and the fanciest distance learning online artificial intelligence, I would pick the in-person human amazing teacher every time.
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