
alone, based on recent math tests scores, about 10 to 15% of students have “dropped off the school radar,” he said.īased in Moutain View, in California’s Silicon Valley, Khan Academy’s mission is “to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.” It offers online learning tools from Kindergarten to some college level courses, including in math, science, computing, history and English. But many students, especially from families with limited or no access to computers and cellphones or with limited internet service, appear to have been lost, says Khan, who is 44-years-old. This raises the hope that perhaps students are not entirely missing a year of education due to the pandemic. This use, of the Academy’s free learning tools, is triple that before the COVID-19 lockdown began a year ago, Salman Amin Khan, its founder told CNBC today.

Currently some school students worldwide are spending a total of 85 to 90 million minutes a day learning on Khan Academy’s online platforms.
