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: ...

Khan Academy is expanding its highest-level math content through a new partnership with a prestigious New England boarding school. The plans, announced this week, involve Khan—a popular producer of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...