KHAN ACADEMY

By bringing Khan Academy into the classroom, teachers significantly increase learning outcomes for their students. Each student can remediate gaps or move ahead, according to their needs. Khan Academy also provides additional practice, instructional support, and personalized data on how each student is doing so teachers can identify gaps and provide tailored instruction. This enables teachers to have more time to do what they do best — connecting with and inspiring their students.

Millions of teachers and students are already using Khan Academy to improve their lives. 87 percent of low income students who have used Khan Academy say it helps prepare them for college. Among teachers who have used Khan Academy, over 90 percent say that it is an effective learning resource. Success on external assessments confirm this—US-based students who completed 60% of their grade-level math on Khan Academy nearly doubled their growth, according to a nationally-recognized academic progress test (NWEA MAP).

With the help of our supporters, Khan Academy will continue to build teacher and student-facing tools and deliver in-person, online, and peer-to-peer trainings that make educational success a reality for more students and teachers.

Khan Academy Kids, launched in 2018, helps children develop the foundational academic and social-emotional skills they’ll need to get ready for kindergarten and a lifetime of learning. The app, developed with early childhood education experts, engages kids with fun lessons on math, literacy, and other early learning topics while encouraging real-life interactions between parents and children. The app is 100% free and 100% add free.

Studies show that a quarter of low-income students don’t enter kindergarten ready to learn, and kindergarten readiness is a leading indicator of future success. Over the next few years, Khan Academy will continue to improve Khan Academy Kids. We’ll also work to raise awareness among more families to ensure that all children can begin their education ready to learn and succeed.

We’re helping level the playing field by offering free, robust practice tools for key standardized exams that are critical for higher education and employment. In fact, twice as many US high school students used Khan Academy to prepare for the SAT than paid for a tutor or course. We also recently launched free prep for the LSAT, the admission exam for US law schools. Soon, we’ll launch prep for Praxis Core, a key exam many aspiring teachers need to take.

Many students are taking their education to the next level with test prep on Khan Academy. Twenty hours of Official SAT Practice on Khan Academy is associated with an average 115-point score increase from the PSAT/NMSQT to the SAT, nearly two times the average gain among students who do not use Official SAT Practice on Khan Academy. Score gains are consistent across gender, family income, race, ethnicity, and parental education level. We’ll continue to improve our current offerings and explore additional offerings that ensure that access to high quality resources isn’t a barrier to higher education access.

Nearly one third of Khan Academy’s usage occurs outside the United States. We work with governments and education leaders in Brazil, India, Mexico, and Peru to develop localized content specifically designed to address the most critical scholastic needs of each country. We will expand our targeted localization efforts to other countries over the long term. This focused, disciplined approach will maintain the quality of our curriculum while simultaneously adapting to local needs and priorities.

In the meantime, Khan Academy remains committed to growing and improving their language offerings for the more than 30 languages on their platform with the support of a community of volunteer advocates, who span the world from Turkey to Bangladesh, with more languages on the way for 2019.