Over the past decade, the free instructional website Khan Academy has transformed how tens of millions of students across the globe perceive and approach math. Now, it’s pursuing a bigger aim: ...

Continuing its evolution from quirky disruptor of traditional classroom learning to mainstream player aligned with the education establishment, the nonprofit Khan Academy recently unveiled new online ...

Free website includes thousands of exercises for helping students prepare for the new standards at their own pace, founder Sal Khan announced Each student will get his or her own learning dashboard to ...

Seventh-grader Katilin Underwood mastered arithmetic on Friday and she has a shiny virtual patch to prove it. “We have a new badge,” said Egan Junior High teacher Courtney Cadwell, announcing ...

I'm just going to come out and say it: the Khan Academy is the best thing that has happened to education since Socrates. The brainchild of Salman Khan, the Khan Academy became famous by teaching ...

Before he started the most popular education site on the Web, Salman Khan was neither an educator nor an entrepreneur. His outsider status helps explain why he's been able to solve a problem that ...

Your website may not be as popular as Khan Academy, and you probably aren't teaching math, but you can use valuable principles of gamification – namely, instant feedback and cumulative rewards – to ...

As John Palfrey Jr., the head of school at Phillips Academy in Andover, was searching for a way to share the boarding school’s educational materials with students across the globe, he came up with an ...