Guest Commentary: Education Week Quizzes Khan Academy Creator

Salman Khan, a MIT and Harvard Business School grad, was working as a hedge fund manager when he began posting videos on YouTube six years ago to tutor young family members in math. That led to the 2008 creation of the Khan Academy, a nonprofit organization that has built a free, online collection of thousands of digital lessons (nearly 3,000 of them created by Khan himself) and exercises in subjects ranging from algebra to microeconomics. Education Week Staff Writer Lesli A. Maxwell recently interviewed Khan. about the evolution of the academy and its potential for changing K-12 education.

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