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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. I made three assumptions back in 2010 that still hold sway today. The philosophical core of Khan Academy is mastery learning. Today, 99% of U.S.

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Tuesday Show - Teachers Becoming Their Own Khan Academy

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

In 2010, after attending the Building Learning Communities conference, Stacey saw a demonstration of Camtasia Studio and immediately knew that she was looking at her answer – a way to reduce anxiety in her AP Calculus classroom by eliminating the traditional lecture on the board.