Welcome to People I (Mostly) Admire, with Steve Levitt. KHAN: The young people that we’re starting to see come through the door for the Khan World School - these are going to be the kids who are going to change the world. I’m excited to talk today with Sal about his latest ambitious endeavor, the launching of the Khan World School. We talked then about Khan Academy and the small experimental school - the Khan Lab School - he’d started. I met Sal for the first time when he came on this podcast in the spring of 2021. The Khan Lab School is a brick and mortar school where students receive a conventional education, while also spending time practicing on Khan Academy to supplement their education.Today, I welcome Sal Khan back to the show. Today, Khan is the executive director of Khan Academy and is working on his latest project, the Khan Lab School. Students go to Khan Academy with a topic that they want to work on, watch a series of video tutorials, and finally do curated exercises to reinforce their learning and reevaluate their level. The channel has over 5 million subscribers and over 7 thousand videos.

Khan Academy is an online learning platform built on top of a YouTube channel. By the time he quit his day job, his YouTube channel had passed the million views mark and Khan was determined to turn his newfound hobby into his full-time occupation by creating the Khan Academy website. It wasn’t until his cousin needed help in mathematics that Khan realized that there was a massive need for high quality, free educational materials online. Armed with his degrees and an excellent work ethic, he then set out to work as a hedge fund analyst. Khan attended the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received a bachelor’s degree in math and a master’s degree in computer science. Workshops Category used for workshop “handouts.”Īs the founder of Khan Academy, American educator and mathematician Salman Khan started his life in Louisiana where he lived and attended public schools before graduating as the valedictorian of his high school.Professional Development Use this category to mark workshops, birds of a feather, and other training opportunities so they display when someone clicks on Professional Development.Projects in a Box Category used for workshop “handouts.”.I’d like to Category to place articles on the “I’d Like to…” page.

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