{"id":9293,"date":"2022-01-15T15:18:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T23:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=9293"},"modified":"2022-01-15T15:18:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T23:18:49","slug":"donated-to-khan-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2022\/01\/15\/donated-to-khan-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Donated to Khan Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year I wanted our family to donate to a worthy cause. A few factors went into my choice of who to donate to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m reminded of how many adults are always willing to <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/RF1nwuRFD3w?t=36\">sign petitions on banning dihydrogen monoxide<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Last quarter, Abigail went to a &#8220;fun environmental science&#8221; after-school program. In actuality, she (a first grader) learned about all the unsolved global environmental disasters of our time: climate change, the acidification of the oceans, the pacific garbage gyre&#8230; fun stuff! No, not really. I strongly believe that she should have learned about how the world&#8217;s system work before being alarmed about how they don&#8217;t. It&#8217;s a matter of putting the cart before the horse.<\/li>\n<li>Political discourse in the US has taken a dangerous anti-science bent in the past few years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This year, our family donated a sizable amount to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charitynavigator.org\/ein\/261544963\">Khan Academy<\/a> to promote early science education.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is to help helping to raise the science literacy of the most number of people. Originally, I set a goal of finding an\u00a0organization that teaches the fundamentals of science to adults, but that, sadly, sounds like a political act these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year I wanted our family to donate to a worthy cause. A few factors went into my choice of who to donate to: I&#8217;m reminded of how many adults are always willing to sign petitions on banning dihydrogen monoxide. Last quarter, Abigail went to a &#8220;fun environmental science&#8221; after-school program. In actuality, she (a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9294,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9293\/revisions\/9294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}