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A few days ago, after musing about how soon I would be graduating and how little I knew about personal finance, I asked my dad if he thought it would be a good idea to take a finance class during my ...

The following script is from "Teacher to the World" which aired on March 11, 2012, and was rebroadcast on Sept. 1, 2013. Sanjay Gupta is the correspondent. Denise Schrier Cetta, producer. Take a ...

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 ...

Khan Academy is an online learning nonprofit company that aims to make high-quality education free for anyone with an internet connection. What was originally a one-man operation — former hedge fund ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link As a tech lifestyle reporter at Business Insider, I often write about programmer culture, telling stories of awesome office perks, parties, and ...

The second installment of our occasional series of interviews between Lynda.com founder Lynda Weinman and some of the speakers that UCSB Arts & Lectures is bringing to town features Salman Khan, the ...

Newark public schools are cautiously trying out a new automated teaching aid from Khan Academy. The preliminary report card: “could use improvement.” By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer, who covers ...

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 ...

I have had the a good fortune of speaking with good number of the leaders in education technology today. Since so many of these players have emerged from academe, the competition between companies is ...

I’m pleased to report that with a month still left to go, there are over 14 entries in the #MTT2K Khan-test: 14 videos ranging from silly to snarky to measured, from off-the-cuff to carefully planned ...

(CBS News) Sal Khan is a math, science, and history teacher to millions of students, yet none have ever seen his face. Khan is the voice and brains behind Khan Academy, a free online tutoring site ...