More than 10,000 students in nearly four dozen schools across Idaho will log into newly created Khan Academy accounts during the 2013-14 school year as part of an initiative that aims to infuse ...

In my travels through Vietnam and Korea and in my correspondence with educators around the world—from Russia to Brazil to here at home in the United States—I’ve been struck by how hungry people are ...

Where should you go online to advance your understanding of a topic or study something new? For academic subjects, start with the excellent Khan Academy. It's one of the best online learning services, ...

Virtual school The Khan Academy just released an official iPad app today, and if you have kids in school you might just want to grab a copy, because it’s excellent. For those of you unfamiliar with ...

A big idea driving Khan Academy is a belief in “mastery learning”—that students should show proficiency in one set of materials before moving on to the next. The nonprofit’s latest push to make ...

The founder of Khan Academy told CNBC that online instruction cannot fully replace in-person class — but said there are ways to maximize the benefit for students. "We're not going to be replicate ...

Listening to Sal Khan, founder of the Khan Academy, speak on stage to several hundred attendees at the 5 th Anniversary Gala last week for Innosight Institute—the non-profit that I co-founded—I ...

Salman Khan, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Harvard Business School, was working as a hedge fund manager when he began posting videos on YouTube six years ago to tutor ...

Parents learn to pick their battles. It's crucial for survival. When it comes to screen time? That's a fight just about every parent now struggles with. On one hand, you sometimes just want some peace ...

For the past 12 years, Salman Khan has been touting online learning as the future of education. But even he didn’t imagine us crashing into that future so suddenly and with little time to prepare. Now ...

This is a great idea. Dan Meyer and Justin Reich are sponsoring the MTT2K Prize. In short, this idea was inspired by John Golden and David Coffeey's Mystery Teacher Theater 2000 in which they make a ...