John Katzman
John Katzman
John Katzmanis best known as an educationalist. He has established a number of companies which assist students with their studies and career choices. He has also authored a number of books on the subject...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
kids needs knows
Almost everyone who has claimed to know what kids need to learn or how they learn has turned out to be wrong.
should
There shouldn't be one Sal Khan - there should be 100,000 of them.
believe years yield
Americans have learned to trust free markets. Republican or Democrat, we believe the unimpeded exchange of goods and services will yield better solutions than five-year plans set by even the most well-meaning public servants.
alma-mater may internet
The Internet will save higher education, but it may kill your alma mater.
taken students sat
I'd never taken an SAT prep course. They were for weaker students.
ceo hated company
I hated being a public company CEO.
educational discovery understanding
Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.
jobs thinking development
After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month.
team kids son
I played street hockey in Riverside Park when I was a kid. I played goalie. I didn't make the hockey team in college, so I played lacrosse instead. I didn't play hockey again for 20 to 25 years, and then my son became interested in the game. I decided to pick it up again. A friend let me play backup on his team.
children years two
No two children learn in the same way. While we might agree that every American eight-year-old should be able to read and multiply, beyond those basics, there are few reasons to make every student follow the same path.
school college men
Why do men outperform women on the SAT? The SAT's supposed to predict college grades. Women do better in high school and they do better in college. What's the problem here? Ah, the more you use, the more you start accepting that the SAT's coachable, the more problems you have with it.
teacher princeton-university minimum-wage
When I was a student at Princeton University, I was working part time in a grocery store. I saw an ad for teachers of a prep course. I don't remember what it paid, but it was easily double or triple the minimum wage.
looks problem easy
We should get rid of the SAT as fast as we can. Look, there are bigger problems in society. This is not the biggest problem we have. But it's so easy to get rid of it. Right? Just pull the plug.
school quality peers
Traditionally, universities have seen size as potentially dilutive to quality. If you doubled the size of campus and faculty, most would argue that you would make it a less compelling school. However, online schools will be as good as their classroom peers only if they are large enough to afford a substantial and ongoing investment.