The founder of the Khan Academy creates a college admission tool for controversial topics
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The premises of the American College are known as the increasing ideological war zone where civil debate screams and forces the partisan pressure to consider students and professors twice before sharing an unconventional opinion. But the founder of the Khan Academy, Sal Khan, is trying to change it all.
Khan developed a new college entrance tool, dialogue, which is now accepted in the Litney of high-level universities, With ColombiaMIT and University of Chicago. Dialogues are a program that is hosted on a tutoring platform school house. The students record conversations on controversial topics – abortion, immigration, Israel and Palestine.
The dialogue participants then give each other feedback like “sympathetic” and “good listeners”, and then students can submit the portfolio as part of their college application where their interactions are classified on a rubric like “sympathetic,” “” “” “” “” “” normal grounds “and” good audience “. The students will then select which feedback college can choose and include them in the portfolio to complete their admission application.
Khan Academy Cadmi CEO, Sal Khan, said that colleges are suffering from lack of free expression.
“If you think about the college campus, I think most people will agree to the left … especially in the last decade, you have seen less tolerance for the right and even medium perspective,” Khan told Fox News Digital.
Khan said they were inspired to create dialogues after realizing this Pressure on auto-sensors Many American college campuses found that students who have not yet stepped in college campus had infected. After the dinner party at his Liberal Northern California’s enclave, it felt uncomfortable to share that the Mughals would feel that the Mughals would feel the medium-medium-minded crowd, the idea of dialogue was born.
“I have come to dinner parties where I was afraid to share what I really had was my medium, because people may understand that I am, you know – they can understand me negatively and if it happens to me, you can imagine a young person on a college campus?” Khan told Fox News Digital.
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Dialogue portfolio allows students to engage in conversations around controversial topics. (Schoolhouse.World)
Khan said that the dialogue will help to enhance an open environment not only for conservative students but also for American universities, but also for liberal students who have more medium opinion. 2025 Foundation (fire) for personal rights and expression The study found that About 60% of the college students felt either or somewhat uncomfortable when they did not publicly agree with the professors on the topic.
About 50% of the students felt somewhat or very uncomfortable Sharing their opinion With other students in ethnic campus space like Quad. According to the study, conservative students reported themselves to have their own censor more often than generous students. Studies have also found that a large number of students will support the speakers who voice some controversial thoughts on campus without inviting.
There is also a lack of intellectual diversity in campus. 2018 studies It was found that the registered-Republican Professor 5 to 9 by the Professor of Registered-Creator in the Top News-Rang’s liberal art colleges of the United States. Analysis of the MYV Institute It was found that the left -leaning students at the Ivy League universities are more than 53% to 25% of the students than conservative students.
Khan has expressed his desire to communicate that students need to have a difficult conversation with each other and increase their understanding of those who have different opinions.
“Yes, it is not surprising to anyone who knows you, you seem to have broken your ability to be as a society of constructive conversations and constructive differences in ideological lines. You see this on the whole board, but you especially see this with young people,” Khan told Fox News Digital.
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US college campuses have become an ideological war zone. (Spencer Platter/Getty Image)
Some parents are worried that a program focused around the students who share their views on disputing topics can be used as a back-door method of discriminating against conservative students.
“Whether it is climate change or an abortion or guns control, the questions about them about them, you know that there is only one appropriate way to think for these elite organizations,”. “Mom War” Writer and Podcast co-host Beathani Mandel told Fox News Digital.
This is not the first time elite schools use unopposed tools to achieve the desired political results.
After the Supreme Court banned the positive action in college admission in 223, the colleges began to lean more on individual essays in the application so that they could definitely decide how they affect their lives – the court allowed it in its decision.
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However, Khan mentioned that the conversations of the students were not included in the communication portfolio, only he had inserted the chieftain feedback from the voluntary manifestation. The portfolio may include the topics covered, but in which side the student did not take it. He said that the dialogue teams keep an eye on the feedback to ensure that there is no bias in how the students are evaluated. Khan says he already looks at the positive results of his program.
Khan told Fox News Digital, “We had this beautiful conversation where these young people first met an atheist and made me want to go deep into my faith, or I met religious Christians for the first time and now I respect their faith,” Khan told Fox News Digital. “This made me an incredible optimistic for people … you don’t have to agree to that person, you just have to think that they are crazy or they are foolish or racist.”
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