![]() ![]() “If we really want to reach all of the students, especially the ones that might be most in need, we really have to triple down on our work with classrooms and districts.” “I do think being not-for-profit increases the trust level that folks can have with us,” CEO and founder Sal Khan said. The organization is banking that its nonprofit status and its familiarity to students and teachers, will serve as selling points. While the organization says it charged Chicago schools for one-off training sessions in the past, it is now formally selling its services to districts, putting it in direct competition with other education technology vendors - though there is little concrete evidence of Khan Academy’s ability to help students academically. That partnership, which will cost Compton $44,000 this year, is an example of the growing role Khan Academy wants to play inside America’s classrooms. Now that the district is a paying customer, Compton teachers with tech support questions get to jump to the front of Khan’s queue. And Compton officials are paying to use a dashboard that shows teachers and administrators how students are doing in their online lessons. This year, the district is also using Khan Academy to help high schoolers study for the SAT. Last year, Khan Academy trained more than 200 Compton teachers to use its tutorials in their classrooms. “It was definitely a little neighborly competition to say ‘Hey, if Long Beach is doing this, why isn’t Khan over here working with us, too?’” Puccia said. ![]() ![]() Greg Puccia, a Compton schools official who oversees curriculum, called up Khan Academy to see if his district could strike a similar deal. When teachers in Compton Unified School District first started using Khan Academy, they deployed the online learning tool on their own - allowing students to use its tutorial videos to review concepts and practice key skills.īut that started to change two years ago, when district officials saw Khan Academy had launched a partnership with Long Beach Unified, a neighboring school district. ![]()
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