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Let's teach for mastery -- not test scores

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Sal Khan |

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• November 2015

Would you choose to build a house on top of an unfinished foundation? Of course not. Why, then, do we rush students through education when they haven't always grasped the basics? Yes, it's complicated, but educator Sal Khan shares his plan to turn struggling students into scholars by helping them master concepts at their own pace.

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Would you choose to build a house on top of an unfinished foundation? Of course not. Why, then, do we rush students through education when they haven't always grasped the basics? Yes, it's complicated, but educator Sal Khan shares his plan to turn struggling students into scholars by helping them master concepts at their own pace.

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Sal Khan is the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, a nonprofit organization on a mission to provide free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere.

This talk was presented at an official TED conference.

Read our curation guidelines.

You can learn anything. Your brain is like a muscle. The more you use it, the more it grows.

Donate to Khan Academy and help provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.

Sal Khan: Let's teach for mastery -- not test scores | TED Talk