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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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Three Things We Learned at Khan Academy Over the Last Decade

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This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. 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 was humbled by these early teachers’ feedback and the learnings they shared.

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Khan Academy plunged into classrooms, then classrooms went online

The Hechinger Report

LAS VEGAS — Sal Khan made a radical decision last summer. It was time, thought the ed tech pioneer, to bring his nonprofit online education empire to brick-and-mortar schools — lots of them. If it went well, Khan Academy would prove, on a large scale, that teachers are critical to the successful use of technology in learning.

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8 Great Websites and Apps to Help Kids With Fractions

Ask a Tech Teacher

Fractions are not the easiest of math concepts to learn (or teach), yet are arguably one of the most oft applied to our daily lives. Luckily, there are a lot of online apps on offer that are accessible to students and make learning much easier than traditional methods.

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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.

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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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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.