There's on-demand video for that. They need practice? They need feedback? There's adaptive exercises readily available for students. And when that happens, all sorts of neat things happen. One, the students can actually master the concepts, but they're also building their growth mindset, they're building grit, perseverance, they're taking agency over their learning.
And all sorts of beautiful things can start to happen in the actual classroom. Instead of it being focused on the lecture, students can interact with each other. They can get deeper mastery over the material. They can go into simulations, Socratic dialogue. To appreciate what we're talking about and the tragedy of lost potential here, I'd like to give a little bit of a thought experiment.
If we were to go years into the past to Western Europe, which even then, was one of the more literate parts of the planet, you would see that about 15 percent of the population knew how to read.
And I suspect that if you asked someone who did know how to read, say a member of the clergy, "What percentage of the population do you think is even capable of reading? But if I were to ask you a similar question: "What percentage of the population do you think is capable of truly mastering calculus, or understanding organic chemistry, or being able to contribute to cancer research?
Even when you got that 95 percent, what was that five percent you missed? And it keeps accumulating -- you get to an advanced class, all of a sudden you hit a wall and say, "I'm not meant to be a cancer researcher; not meant to be a physicist; not meant to be a mathematician. And this isn't even just a "nice to have. We're exiting what you could call the industrial age and we're going into this information revolution.
And it's clear that some things are happening. In the industrial age, society was a pyramid. At the base of the pyramid, you needed human labor. In the middle of the pyramid, you had an information processing, a bureaucracy class, and at the top of the pyramid, you had your owners of capital and your entrepreneurs and your creative class. But we know what's happening already, as we go into this information revolution.
The bottom of that pyramid, automation, is going to take over. Even that middle tier, information processing, that's what computers are good at. So as a society, we have a question: All this new productivity is happening because of this technology, but who participates in it?
Is it just going to be that very top of the pyramid, in which case, what does everyone else do? How do they operate? Or do we do something that's more aspirational? Do we actually attempt to invert the pyramid, where you have a large creative class, where almost everyone can participate as an entrepreneur, an artist, as a researcher? And I don't think that this is utopian. Prior to joining Khan Academy she was saving the world in a variety of ways and roles at The Nature Conservancy. She also has faint memories of years in public relations and communications for technology companies.
Anna is proud to work with a community of international volunteers and nonprofit organizations who translate and localize educational content to accelerate Khan Academy's mission of a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere. Prior to joining Khan Academy, Anna held various product, program, and operations roles in the human rights, environmental, and global literacy programs at Benetech, and software consulting and data analysis roles at Manugistics.
Anna received a B. When not working, Anna enjoys many types of music and dance, and spending time near the ocean whenever possible! Adam enjoys making software bigger and faster. After working at Google and Microsoft, he's excited to help change the way eductation is delivered. Before joining Khan Academy, Corey helped hundreds of students to improve their standardized test scores.
He is very humbled by the fact that, through his work here at Khan, that number is now in the millions. Russell believes that good software can change lives. He strives to make his work fun to use and accessible to all.
When not coding, he likes to go on trips and take many out of focus pictures. Juan works on the Frontend infrastructure team. Passionate about Design systems, tooling and web performance. When not coding, he likes biking, playing soccer and hanging out with his family. Prior to Khan Academy, she has served as an Executive Assistant in the higher education sector for 8 years where she honed her skills in operations and event management, cross-departmental coordination, and helped in building organizational culture.
In her free time, she likes to study culture as a concept and how it encompasses the range of human phenomena that cannot be attributed to genetic inheritance.
They are pleased as punch to be able to give back to this community. Sarah believes in lifelong learning. She is thrilled to continue supporting education through attention to detail in quality engineering at Khan Academy.
Sarah enjoys hiking, reading all the exhibit signs in museums, singing, and playing cooperative survival crafting computer games. Karla believes in the power of education to change lives. At Khan Academy she is able to partner with supporters who share that belief to help secure the funding that enables a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.
Prior to joining Khan Academy, Karla spent time in college access and teaching. Alexis started making websites during the Flash and guestbook craze of the early 's and hasn't stopped since.
In spite of those trying beginnings, today they focus on development to make the web and world a better place. In the off hours, they enjoy Broadway shows, reading, and playing games of both the board and video variety. Warren is a multidisciplinary designer, artist, and tinkerer. He loves building things, tending to rare succulents, and spending time with his family.
Before joining Khan Academy, he helped lead design on projects at Vox Media, co-founded a non-profit newspaper, and built a civic startup called City2. Kat believes in education as a means to a better world. After earning her B. Having both taught in the classroom and worked in textbook publishing, she's delighted to be part of Khan's effort to bring innovative learning to students around the world. Kat also believes travel is a means to a broader education and frequently embarks on trips with her family, who occupy the other half of her time!
Lilli is a Senior Software Engineer, maker, and artist. In her free time, she's often playing on her phone, making something new, or taking her art installations on tour around the west coast and the world. Outside work, he ponders about why his two kids are unbearably adorable, and whether he is biased or not?
She helps ensure the design quality of the artwork and content going into the Khan Academy Kids app. She is passionate about working on a mission-driven team to help create a free, fun, and educational experience for kids around the world. When she's not making gifs of the Khan Academy Kids characters, she enjoys film photography, petting cats, and short walks to a coffee shop.
Jason is a full-stack web developer working on the learning platform team at Khan Academy. Before joining he spent his time building websites and mobile apps for Mobify and TripAdvisor. When he's not at his computer he can be found in the great outdoors rock climbing, skiing, or hiking. Boris is a python developer on the infrastructure team. Passionate about education, he also teaches at a coding bootcamp in Vancouver, Canada.
When he's not coding, he spends time bike touring, rock climbing, exploring new documentaries, and playing bad music to experiment with his audience. Hung has more than 17 years of experience in software quality assurance.
Passionate and dedicated to releasing quality products, he is super excited to be part of Khan Academy and help give back to the community. Outside of work, Hung enjoys spending time with his first baby boy and family,,followed by running, cycling and sipping on a cup of Philz coffee. Susan loves working with others to turn visions into reality. Before joining Khan Academy, Susan helped shape new product concepts and technologies at Amazon. Outside of work, she enjoys running local trails, hiking near the coast, consuming poetry, and editing photos on her smartphone.
She believes in the future. She wishes you well. Passionate about people, education and technology she always seeks to unite these passions and at Khan Academy this is possible. She has been working in Education as a teacher for over 15 years and with teacher training and capacity building since Outside of work Dan seeks adventure and learning.
He enjoys hiking, camping, traveling and photography. Responsible for development of data-driven campaigns and cross-channel strategies paid, social, email and PR focused in bring and engage users to our platform.
A first-generation college graduate, Sandi holds a masters degree in accounting from North Carolina State University and a certificate in nonprofit management from Duke University. Nada is passionate about education since she was TAing for computer science classes during college. After completing her internship at Khan Academy, Nada was eager to continue working with an incredible team that wants to provide free, world-class education to everyone, everywhere.
Jason joined Khan Academy in and loves working with talented, fun people solving important problems that have positive impact for customers. Jason built Intuit's QuickBooks, has experience building startups and recently lead front-end engineering at Financial Engines. Away from work you can find Jason playing tennis, golf, ultimate frisbee, and hanging out with his family. Adam has taught science to high school students and teachers in Cameroon, to college students at Colgate University, and to students all over the world as a curriculum designer and manager at IXL Learning.
He earned his Masters degree while studying how DNA methylation affects the structure and function of chromatin, and his Doctoral degree while investigating the ecological and genetic consequences of polyploidy in flowering plants. Lauren is a scientist-turned-educator who is excited to be creating chemistry content at Khan Academy! Before coming to Khan, Lauren was a curriculum designer at IXL, where she developed fun and engaging science lessons for middle school.
Lauren holds a PhD in chemistry from Caltech. In her spare time, Lauren loves to travel 40 countries and counting! Robert is a software quality engineer with over 4 years of experience. Robert works with android, iOS and PC software and hardware. He loves learning, is analytical, focused, and organized.
When he is not working he loves spending time with his wife and son and playing obscure video games. Joe manages day-to-day office operations at Khan Academy including vendor management, events and real estate needs. Away from the office he enjoys time with family, music, hobbies and yearly trips to his favorite beaches. Fan of breakfast burritos and proud minivan driver.
She received her B. Before joining the Khan team, Kami was a teacher and instructional coach in the elementary grades in Colorado and Philadelphia. Kami enjoys spending time with her family, traveling, and chasing around her daughter. Allison is part of the small but mighty team working to create ELA content. Before coming to Khan, Allison was a reading teacher, a literacy specialist, a librarian, and a literacy coach. Kathy is excited to work at a place that is re-imagining education.
Ruslan is an automation engineer in the Quality Engineering team. Passionate about machine learning, blockchain and web developing. Matt has a lifelong passion for learning and education. His last gig before Khan Academy was at Ithaka, a not for profit serving academic institutions and researchers.
Megan is a science content creator at Khan Academy, specializing in biology. She has a PhD from UC Berkeley where she studied the molecular mechanisms by which bacteria cause diseases in plants.
Megan loves thinking about how best to teach biology concepts, and is excited to help learners discover a passion for science through her work at Khan Academy.
She manages daily operations, snack stocking, and office organization. Aimee is a former Pre-K teacher and loves being on a team that's committed to equalizing educational opportunities for our youngest learners. Aimee enjoys reading, cooking, and taking her dogs to the park. She is originally from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Angelo is a frontend focused engineer that is passionate about delivering awesome products that truly benefit users.
Outside of the office, you may find Angelo transmitting on Amateur Radio frequencies KK6LDH, letting magic smoke out of electronics, futzing with his cars, or off in the mountains camping. Adam is a software developer with a passion for building useful and understandable user experiences. Aviv works on strengthening, elevating and celebrating our community of practice through our Khan Academy Ambassador Program and Teach With Khan educator communities.
Given her background teaching and coaching in the NYC school system, Aviv especially enjoys partnering with Khan educators to develop resources for differentiating instruction, engaging students, and driving both teacher and student ownership around learning and growth mindset.
When not in conversation with teachers, Aviv can be found on a yoga mat, running in the park, or reading. As the daughter of a mad scientist, Six feels it's her mission to bring order to chaos while spreading fun. A long time Silicon Valley veteran, she's worked at diverse companies from Apple to Napster. In her spare time, Six enjoys writing science fiction, making video games, and writing short autobiographies in the third person.
Liz is a backend developer with previous experience working on large scale products at AWS. She's passionate about learning and excited to join the Learning Platform team at Khan Academy.
In her spare time Liz does search and rescue with King County, paints, and attempts to keep up with her massive backlog of books to read. He loves to play sports like basketball, volleyball, and squash in his free time. Carolina is excited to work on the Portuguese course in order to help Brazilian students increase their knowledge and gain confidence.
Prior to joining Khan Academy, she spent 8 years working as a textbook editor and author. Carolina is grateful for all of the educational opportunities she has had and wishes to help provide better educational opportunities to as many people as possible. Irene is a designer on the Marketing, Product and Philanthropy team.
Prior to this, she worked on scaling Khan Academy, and in between, she did a stint at grad school. For this, she has been crowned a Khan Academy Boomerang. Achievement unlocked!
After receiving his M. Right before joining Khan Academy, he was the Director of Curriculum at Academic Approach, a tutoring and test prep company in Chicago. When he is not developing test prep content, Duo serves as board member and treasurer of the audio drama nonprofit HartLife NFP, cooks for humans and sometimes cats, and tries to be low-key entertaining in life.
He loves precise measurements and other people's secrets, and he probably likes you. Cat has a degree in Psychology, and taught ESL in South Korea and worked in Special Education before beginning to study software engineering as a hobby. Working at Khan Academy allows her to develop her passion for software and continuous learning while still giving back to students. Michael Chanover is the vice president of design. Prior to joining Khan Academy, Michael served as the vice president of design and user experience at NerdWallet, where he led a team of designers, researchers, and writers across product design, research, and brand toward solutions that enabled consumers to make financial decisions with confidence.
Michael also previously served as vice president of design at Shopkick, a mobile loyalty platform; chief creative officer for Fingerprint, a gaming platform; and vice president of product for the Alsop-Louie portfolio company, Kidlandia. Michael was the global creative director of web and brand at the educational toy company, LeapFrog Enterprises, where he led brand and user experience design.
Michael spent four years in the San Francisco and New York offices of Frogdesign as executive producer and general manager. Amy is a technical recruiter that loves all things food, cats, video games, and internet meme related.
Sidnei has joined as Country Manager for Khan Academy Brazil to lead our local partnerships and programs and scale up our operation to reach increasingly more learners in the coming years. Stephanie loves all things social media and online community. She leads the social team that brings out the joy for Khan Academy's virbant community of learners, teachers, and parents. She gets to tell stories for her day job. Reads stories for leisure.
Finds stories by exploring with her husband and their big, floofy dog. Dave is a backend engineer working on the infrastructure team. He's an advocate of high quality comprehensive code. In his free time, you can usually find Dave playing with his kids, reading a book, watching a movie, playing video games, or cooking. Possibly all at the same time. Steve is a full stack developer working on the districts and rostering team. He brings an infectious enthusiasm, a commitment to continual learning, an empathic orientation, and a breadth of technical experience.
He strives to make a safe, accessible environment, where everyone is appreciated for their contributions and can reach their full potential. Since building software is an inherently communicative art, he strongly believes sprinkling in bad puns makes for better software [citation needed]. Carolina holds a B. She has worked in localization for over a decade and she's been interested in education her entire life.
Starting her career as a translator, moving into project management and localization, she now works at Khan Academy managing our Spanish localization program, ensuring our content reaches learners all over the world! Learn more about coaching. Learn more about their stories. I just found your web site. I am 72 years old and I am now taking up learning where I left off. Thank you so much for all your hard work. Barbara Thank you for your ongoing inspiration.
I am a primary school teacher in the north of England and when the conventional education system gets on my nerves, I only need to whack on a Khan Academy and my faith in the future of education is restored! Born in Minneapolis, Mr. Friedman received a B. Prior to being appointed to his present position in , Hoplamazian served as President of The Pritzker Organization, L. During his 17 year tenure with TPO he served as advisor to various Pritzker family-owned companies, including Hyatt Hotels Corporation and its predecessors.
Michael Horn speaks and writes about the future of education and works with a portfolio of education organizations to improve the life of each and every student. An expert on disruptive innovation, online learning, blended learning, competency-based learning, and how to transform the education system into a student-centered one, he serves on the board and advisory boards of a range of education organizations.
Isaacson is chair emeritus of Teach for America, which recruits recent college graduates to teach in underserved communities. From he was the vice-chair of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, which oversaw the rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina. He was appointed by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate to serve as the chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which runs Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and other international broadcasts of the United States, a position he held from to She has served in admissions leadership for well over a decade, moving to Berkeley from the University of Virginia in She started her admission work at Radford University, a Virginia public school near her hometown in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
As the first in her family to attend college, Amy is inspired by the access provided by public universities. She started her professional life in public service, working in Washington DC for government and non-profits. Whittier Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Kelley is the Academic Director of both the degree-granting undergraduate and graduate programs in design within the School of Engineering, and has been a professor in the program for more than 35 years.
Widely known for teaching human-centered design methodology and design thinking to students and business executives, Kelley and his brother Tom co-authored the New York Times best-selling book, Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All. Wendy founded Teach For America in to marshal the energy of her generation against educational inequity in the United States. Today, more than 10, Teach For America corps members—outstanding recent college graduates and professionals of all academic disciplines—are in the midst of two-year teaching commitments in 50 urban and rural regions, and Teach For America has proven to be an unparalleled source of long-term leadership for expanding opportunity for children.
Today, she remains an active member of Teach For America's board. Wendy led the development of Teach For All to be responsive to the initiative of inspiring social entrepreneurs around the world who were determined to adapt this approach in their own countries.
Now in its eighth year, the Teach For All network is comprised of partner organizations in more than 35 countries around the world, including its founding partners Teach For America and the U. Previously, Larson was the K—12 curriculum specialist for mathematics in Lincoln Nebraska Public Schools for more than 20 years. Larson began his career in education as a high school mathematics teacher.
He has authored or co-authored several books, including a series on professional learning communities and Common Core Mathematics. Larson has taught mathematics at the elementary through college level and has held an appointment as an honorary visiting associate professor at Teachers College, Columbia University. Matt Larson received his Ph.
William G. Born in Sydney, Australia in , he received his Ph. After spending two years at the University of California, Berkeley, and one at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, he joined the faculty at the University of Arizona in In he joined the Harvard calculus consortium, and is the lead author of the consortium's multivariable calculus and college algebra texts.
In he founded the Institute for Mathematics and Education at the University of Arizona, and is currently its director. His professional interests include arithmetical algebraic geometry and mathematics education. He has received grants and written articles, essays, and books in both areas. Henry McCance joined Greylock in and focuses on the software sector, while overseeing Greylock's strategic direction. In , he co-founded the Cure Alzheimer's Fund, an entrepreneurial non-profit.
James G. He is credited with streamlining the admissions process, developing specialized recruitment programs, and achieving significant increases in both applicant pool and yield rates while drawing from an increasingly diverse demographic group. He also served as a fellow at Yale's Berkley College, where he was responsible for advising undergraduate students, as well as assisting in planning residential events and functions.
He began his career with the Cambridge Technology Group CTG , where he held progressively responsible positions eventually leading to his role as president. Prior to his tenure at Yale, he was involved in the start-up of the Terrace Community School, a charter school in Tampa, Florida, where he served as founding teacher, musical director, and coach.
Deborah received the Arnold M. Stuart Schmill is dean of admissions and student financial services for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Schmill joined the admissions office in , was appointed Dean in , and added Student Financial Services to his portfolio in An innovative and compassionate leader, Schmill has been honored with numerous leadership and coaching awards, and has served as a speaker at admissions conferences around the world, as well as guest faculty member at the Harvard Summer Institute for College Admissions.
Recently, she collaborated with Carnegie Corporation to launch k in 10, which President Clinton has referred to as a new model for social change.
Sandy serves as a strategic adviser to the K Lab Network at the Stanford d. She is on advisory boards of k in 10, and Pioneer Academies in South Africa. Louis, and spent six years teaching design thinking to fifth-graders at a public school in San Francisco. Zakaria was editor of Newsweek International from to and a columnist for Newsweek. Prior to his tenure at Newsweek, Zakaria was managing editor of Foreign Affairs, a leading journal of international politics and economics from to He has won numerous awards and been named to various lists, including Foreign Policy magazine's list of "Top Global Thinkers" and Newsweek magazine's "Power 50" list of the most influential political figures of He has received honorary degrees from Brown, the University of Miami, and Oberlin College, among other educational institutions.
Zakaria earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a doctorate in political science from Harvard University.
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