Truly, Sal has changed education forever. Today more than 200,000 educators around the world are using Khan Academy to help students build mastery of topics and free up classroom time for more discussion and dynamic project based learning. He has reinvented education for future generations both here in Silicon Valley and around the world.

Like David Packard, Khan has brought the civic entrepreneurship approach to improving our community. Khan Academy students have completed more than a billion and a half exercise problems are doing so at more than 4 million exercises per day. Khan Academy offers more than 5000 instructional videos covering math, biology, physics, chemistry, statistics, probability, programming, economics, history, art history, medicine, nursing, and topical issues. In the last two years alone, students have viewed more than 350 million lessons. Today Khan Academy receives visits of more than 10 million students every month from all over the globe. When Sal began tutoring his young cousin, Nadia, and placing his lessons online in 2004, no one could have predicted that these one-on-one lessons would evolve to become the ubiquitous Khan Academy whose mission is to provide a Free World-Class Education for Anyone, Anywhere.

Founder and Executive Director, Khan Academyīy Duffy Jennings | Published: March 2014Īt the 2014 State of the Valley conference, Salman Khan, founder of Khan Academy, joined a distinguished list of Silicon Valley icons Joint Venture has recognized because they embody the spirit of the man for whom Joint Venture’s highest honor is named, David Packard.

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