Born to Muslim Bengali parents, Sal Khan is an American citizen, whose grandfather was a speaker in the National Assembly of Pakistan. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with ...

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A conversation with Harvard Business School professor Bill Sahlman on creating a focused strategy for growth. Khan Academy, the online global education nonprofit, launched in 2006 when founder Sal ...

The headquarters of what has rapidly become the largest school in the world, at 10 million students strong, is stuffed into a few large communal rooms in a decaying 1960s office building hard by the ...

In 2009, Sal Khan walked away from a high-paying job to start a business that had no way of making money. His idea to launch a non-profit teaching platform was ignited five years earlier, when he was ...

Salman “Sal” Khan, founder and CEO of the nonprofit education organization Khan Academy, was greeted by a sea of raised hands during a December event held at CEMEX Auditorium. Khan opened the ...

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 ...

Khan Academy founder and CEO Sal Khan said the use of artificial intelligence in education is “an imperative” at a Harvard-MIT event Tuesday afternoon. The panel kicked off a conference hosted by the ...

Sal Khan, the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, built an education enterprise on virtual learning. But as many communities across the country prepare to start the fall with online-only instruction, ...