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Is Khan Academy a real ‘education solution’? - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Is Khan Academy a real ‘education solution’? - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:


Is Khan Academy a real ‘education solution’?

The Khan Academy has been in the education news lately but it’s not the kind of publicity that its founder, Salman Khan, would have chosen if given a choice.
The academy is a nonprofit organization started by Khan, a former hedge-fund manager, that offers free lessons in math and other subjects via videos posted on the Khan Academy Web site.
Last month, two associate professors from Grand Valley State 
Salman Khan, founder of the Khan Academy in 2010. (Courtesy of Khan Academy)
University in Michigan critiqued one of the Khan videos — on negative and positive integers — in a satirical video that pointed out problems in the specific lesson and, more