In the spring of 2020, many schools were forced to make a rapid switch to remote learning as districts around the country shut down in-person classrooms. Most districts had to make this switch in one ...

Where should you go online to advance your understanding of a topic or study something new? For academic subjects, start with the excellent Khan Academy. It's one of the best online learning services, ...

For 50 ninth graders, showing up to school this fall meant taking part in an experiment. The students had enrolled in the latest effort by Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, the online tool he started ...

Tucked away in a high school chemistry classroom in Northern Indiana are pressure gauges intended to teach a fundamental principle of chemistry known as Boyle’s Law. In their place, Hobart High School ...

A big idea driving Khan Academy is a belief in “mastery learning”—that students should show proficiency in one set of materials before moving on to the next. The nonprofit’s latest push to make ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the number of users of the Khan Academy. It is 137 million users. Two years of intermittent remote and hybrid learning led schools to ...

Proponents see the tools as a way to automatically customize academic support. They could also make children test subjects for A.I. experiments. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer, who covers education ...