Sal Khan

Sal Khan (born 1976) is an American educator and the founder of Khan Academy, a free online non-profit learning platform that grew out of mathematics tutoring videos he began making in 2004 for a young cousin. Educated in Louisiana, then at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Business School, he worked as a hedge fund analyst before leaving in 2009 to develop Khan Academy full time, with lessons in mathematics, science and many other subjects. His teaching approach lets each student master a skill at their own pace before moving on, draws on Benjamin Bloom's mastery learning, and is associated with the flipped classroom, in which learners take in material independently and then apply it in teams. He founded the Khan Lab School in Mountain View, California, in 2014 and launched Schoolhouse, a free small-group tutoring initiative, in early 2020. He received the Heinz Award in 2014 and wrote The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined.