By Julie Rasicot
Here?s how Salman Khan thinks schools should work: Students should learn lessons online and do homework and projects in class.
This ?flipping? of the traditional classroom is the operating system espoused by Khan and his Khan Academy, a Web site whose popularity is exploding as millions tune into its free videos, practice exercises and assessment tools.
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Moody octopuses, altruistic bats and honeybees that vote are academic fodder for Washington?s newest university.
On a rainy Wednesday evening at 21st and L streets NW, a small group of people has gathered ? physically or via the Internet ? at the offices of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS).
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She called herself the ?warm-up act? for Bill Clinton at the Democratic Convention, but Elizabeth Warren electrified the crowd by delivering the fierce heat of the truth straight from the heart:
?People feel like the system is rigged against them. And here?s the painful part: they?re right. The system is rigged. Look around. Oil companies guzzle down billions in subsidies. Billionaires pay lower tax rates than their secretaries. Wall Street CEOs ? the same ones who wrecked our economy and destroyed millions of jobs ? still strut around Congress, no shame, demanding favors and acting like we should thank them. Anyone here have a problem with that? Well I do.?
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It turns out, politicians are human, too.
Watching seasoned politicians at work, it?s difficult to imagine that they ever suffered from self-doubt. But in 60 hours of oral history interviews, men and women who now shape government policy revealed disappointments, exhilarations, vulnerabilities and humbling moments from their first political campaigns ? campaigns that formed the foundation of their public careers.
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A Chinese safety official who was seen smiling at the scene of a bus crash that killed 36 people has been fired, the BBC reports.
Photos posted online of Yang Dacai, head of the Shaanxi provincial work safety administration,�grinning while visiting the fiery crash site in August were what first caught the eye of angry Chinese bloggers. What really set them over the edge, though, were images of Yang wearing luxury watches, some costing more than $5,000.
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MOUNT HOREB, Egypt ? Michael Toth points at a computer screen filled with what seems to be a jumble of Arabic and Greek letters.
To get to this jumble, he has traveled from Washington to an isolated, fortress-like monastery in the middle of the Sinai Desert, home to the oldest continuously operating library on the planet.
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From 1999 to 2011, Randy Cohen was ?The Ethicist,? the New York Times? resident moral philosopher. Each week he responded to readers? letters about ethical conundrums by offering his thinking on the rightness and wrongness of various actions or proposed courses of action. Cohen?s reasoning was usually convincing, his style witty (and sometimes wisecracking), and his advice commonsensical, progressive and humane. Here?s a typical letter from ?Be Good,? his new collection of these columns:
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