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Khan Academy Wants to Make 'Mastery Learning' Mainstream. Will Partnering With Schools Help?

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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 mastery learning mainstream involves partnering with school districts who adopt Khan Academy’s materials and platform.

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Khan Academy plunged into classrooms, then classrooms went online

The Hechinger Report

Although Khan Academy was one of the first online learning organizations to promote the idea that kids could learn at home at their own pace, Khan denied the suggestion that working with traditional schools was a significant change in direction, instead calling it “a natural evolution of our work.”.

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Three Things We Learned at Khan Academy Over the Last Decade

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In 2005, Sal Khan founded Khan Academy, the online education nonprofit where is now CEO, and in 2014 he founded the Khan Lab School. By enabling progress through a mastery-based system, we would help students build confidence and challenge them in the most personalized way.

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8 Great Websites and Apps to Help Kids With Fractions

Ask a Tech Teacher

Interactive Learning on Khan Academy Kids Designed especially for young learners, Khan Academy Kids captivates kids’ minds with interactive and educational math content. It presents fractions in a colorful, engaging style that makes learning fun!

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3 Free Technologies to Help Students Learn to Read

The Innovative Educator

This post delves into three technologies that help make learning to read easier in ways that empower both educators and students. KhanAcademyKids.org While some may associate Khan Academy with math videos, today, it is much more. Khan Academy Kids is completely free, forever—no ads or subscriptions necessary.

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Sal Khan on Expanding Into Early Learning and Launching a Peer-to-Peer Tutoring Platform

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Sal Khan has been as busy as ever. Over the last year, he’s helped Khan Academy manage a three-fold user increase, has grown and developed an online program geared toward early learners, and launched a new peer-to-peer tutoring platform to keep students connected and learning during the pandemic.

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Mastery learning can help close pandemic learning gaps

eSchool News

As the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic and prepares for its first post-pandemic school year, the results of a new Khan Academy survey of teachers offers hope for a brighter future and, at the same time, reaffirms education’s deep commitment to staying laser-focused on recovery. We wholeheartedly agree.