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his name is sal kahn. he's in our toyota green room. the online schooling pioneer shows us his traditional brick and mortar school with unconventional teaching methods. that's ahead. >>> right now it's time to show you some of the headlines from around the globe. britain's independent reports on the discovery of the world's second largest diamond. it's the size of a tennis ball. the 1100-carat stone was unearthed wednesday. its value could run into the tens of millions of dollars. >> some would say a little gaudy. >> but you'd take it. >> you're right. >> "time" reports on music mowing al jimmy ivine under fire for comments he made. he described what's behind a new commercial for apple streaming service. he said some women find it difficult at times to find music and that triggered a social media backlash that you wouldn't believe calling his remarks -- i feel so badly about this because we had called jimmy to unveil the commercial here and we were all sitting at the table and it's just awful that something he said was taken out of cont

his name is sal kahn. he's in our toyota green room.chool with unconventional teaching methods. >>> right now it's time to show you some of this morning's headlines from around the globe. britain's independent reports on the discovery of the world's second largest diamond. it's the size of a tennis ball. the 1100-carat stone was unmined in botswana. it could run into the tens of millions of dollars. >> some could say a little gaudy. >> but you would say it. >> you're right. >> "time" reports on jimmy ivine for xhenlts he made on this show yesterday. he said some women find it difficult at times to find music and that triggered a social media backlash that you wouldn't believe, calling his remarks sexist. let's just take a second. i feel so badly about this unveil the commercial here.- we were all sitting at the table. it's hurtful, i think, that something he said is so taken out of context. when you see the whole interview, that's not the case. we were both talking to him in the green room and i get the point he's making. >> it's import

in 2006 hedge fund manager sal kahn used online tutoring to try and reinvent learning and break down the barriers with the kahn academy. it delivers more than 589,000 lessons. now he is thinking small. he created a brick and mortar school in california. students ages 5 through 12 are in one classroom. sal khan, welcome back to the table. >> great to be here. >> i can't imagine kids 5 to 12. they have different mindsets, different skill sets but they're all in one room learning together? >> in a lot of wayss it g gs back to how humans learned from -- most of 200,000 years of human history. it's only the last 150 years that we separated students by age and these classrooms. and the idea is, is that you can learn a lot from the students who are a little older than you. if you're 12 years old, you can exercise a lot of leadership and be a teaching assistant for the younger students. we do brere them outut every now and then but we separate them by independence level as opposed to age level. whatever independence level you're on, in math, reading or writing, you're on your own track. so th

. >>> hedge fund manager turned superstar sal kahn decided to open a school of his own.what prompted that decision. and he'll tell us if kids have too many standardized tests. you're watching "cbs this morning." your local news is next. now confirm... a murder sus is dead after an overnight standoff, at a motel six ne the coliseum. investigators say >>> good morning. it's 8:25. oakland police now confirm a murder suspect is dead after an overnight standoff at a motel 6 near the coliseum. investigators say it appears he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. 18-year-old jason brown was a suspect in a shooting in livermore last month. >>> more sierra resorts are opening up to skiers and snowboarders just in time for thanksgiving week. sierra at tahoe at echo summit opens for their season today. in the truckee area, sugar bowl plans to open tomorrow and sunday before taking three days off and beginning the season on thanksgiving day. >>> stay with us. traffic and weather in just a moment. ,, ,,,,,,,, r: during sleep train's "thanksgifting" sale ,,,,,,,, save up to $300 ted