Salman “Sal” Khan, founder and CEO of the nonprofit education organization Khan Academy, was greeted by a sea of raised hands during a December event held at CEMEX Auditorium. Khan opened the ...

The headquarters of what has rapidly become the largest school in the world, at 10 million students strong, is stuffed into a few large communal rooms in a decaying 1960s office building hard by the ...

Roughly a year ago, the online learning nonprofit Khan Academy launched Khanmigo—an experimental AI tutor designed to give students one-on-one guidance without doing their homework for them. In that ...

Born to Muslim Bengali parents, Sal Khan is an American citizen, whose grandfather was a speaker in the National Assembly of Pakistan. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with ...

Melissa Higgason, a chemistry teacher in Hobart, Indiana, uses marshmallows and water bottles to help students understand an abstract chemistry concept, an idea suggested by Khanmigo for Teachers.

Courses are well-designed, and most if not all instructors seem genuinely engaged and concerned with the outcome of the learning process. Courses are organized thoughtfully, with content presented in ...

When Sal Khan first launched Khan Academy in 2008, it was little more than a collection of YouTube math tutorials recorded for his cousins. Today, it’s a global nonprofit serving over 150 million ...

American college campuses have become increasingly known as ideological war zones where civil debates get shouted down and partisan pressure forces students and faculty alike to think twice before ...

Tucked away in a high school chemistry classroom in Northern Indiana are pressure gauges intended to teach a fundamental principle of chemistry known as Boyle’s Law. In their place, Hobart High School ...

Khan Academy India today announced that Khanmigo, its AI-powered teaching assistant for teachers, is now available in Odia. With this release, teachers in Odisha can now access ...

Susan Kramer watched her packed 10th grade biology class weave through rows of desks, pretending to be proteins and picking up plastic-bead “carbohydrates” and goofy “phosphate” hats as they navigated ...

There were times I’d be sitting in my college classes frantically scribbling away in my notebook, hand cramping, making sure I had every note from the lecture recorded for when I’d have to study for ...