Salman Khan

From Sunday's print column: First came "Squeezy the Pension Python," Gov. Pat Quinn's effort to draw attention to the severity of the problem of underfunded retirement obligations to public employees. Squeezy, introduced at a Nov. 18 news conference,...

A pair of videos produced for Gov. Pat Quinn's pension-reform campaign by Internet education pioneer Salman Khan. The first one ("Pension obligations," 10:07) is a general explanation of different retirement plans; the second ("Illinois pension...

In my previous two columns I wrote about the halting journey toward infusing technology in education, and promising projects underway at some schools. Yet, for all its potential, technology will be wasted without a concurrent overhaul in teaching...

[There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] It's back and it's on TV Asia. Celebrity Cricket League returns for its second annual season of league play, bringing together two of India's greatest...

++++++++++++++++++++ || || ++++++++++++++++++++ No one's going to confuse "Marigold," Willard Carroll's raga-flavored romcom, with state-of-the-art Bollywood. There are, to be sure, extravagant dance numbers, over-the-top emotional gestures and a tone...

Here's a treat. In Greenwich Village, on the isle of Manhattan, a Jewish Falstaff named Kenny Shopsin and his family serve up an inspired array of dishes at Shopsin's restaurant. (Check out www.shopsins.com and see what you think of the menu.) The...

Sitting on a richly patterned Oriental rug beside a mound of 14,000 hard, white beans, Talat Hamdani tirelessly scooped up handfuls of the dried legumes and slowly dropped them, bean by bean, into an overflowing cereal bowl as she silently prayed one of...