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Tarun G
Hi Schoolhouse team, I love the certification system for math. Please expand it to include Khan Academy's new mastery-enabled science courses. In particular, high school physics and bio; AP Physics, Chem, Bio; Environment, Micro, Macro, CS Principles; Computers and the Internet; and even World History Project 1750 and Origins. are well suited. But of all these, the science courses are best suited for the current certification mechanism.
There is a way for getting certified in high school science already: Experimental honorary certification. But I'd love to see an Experimental math-style regular certification for at least high school physics, hs biology, and maybe AP Physics, AP Chem, etc. I'm looking forward to tutoring science, but I'd like to submit something more than a mere self-attestation of my experience with the subject. I enjoy doing the math certification videos, and I'd love to do it for science too!
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Evan T
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Based on the comments, this sounds complete!
Karinna F
I believe this is complete!
Tarun G
Karinna F: Yes! Time to mark it Complete!
Tarun G
Though I still root for just one more science certification, for this one-unit course: https://www.khanacademy.org/college-careers-more/internet-safety/xef9bb6e081c9f4ff:online-data-security
Elysa Kohrs
Good idea Tarun G! I've recently been looking into what subjects we could expand the video certification system to so these are good ideas and fit in with that. I think some of the AP sciences would be most-likely to happen the soonest
Tarun G
Elysa Kohrs: Thank you so much for responding, Elysa! I'd love to see the science certifications soonest. Can't wait to get certified in those, the think-aloud way!
Tarun G
Hi Elysa! Just sharing this important article KA published on their Science course https://support.khanacademy.org/hc/en-us/articles/4406030883725. Looks like the NGSS and non-NGSS high school sciences will be merged into standalone Phy, Chem, and Bio courses. Our bottleneck is to decide whether to video-certify the HS sciences or the AP sciences.
AP Chemistry and Environment are rigorous, well-designed courses, but HS Bio seem to me like a better candidate to certify. Similarly, AP Physics 1 does an excellent job of covering mechanics but no units at all on electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, etc. HS Physics, though, covers these topics.
Schoolhouse's biggest challenge here is to decide whether to wait for the HS Science unification, or to certify anyway. And if we certify now, NGSS or non-NGSS for Phy and Bio?