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To anyone who has ever used Khan Academy, this is a must listen.
To anyone who hasn’t, Sal Khan is probably the world’s most influential education reformist within the private sector. He is the founder of Khan Academy, a collection of YouTube-adjacent instructional courses on high-school-level topics available free-of-charge across the world. Khan Academy is now working on a ChatGPT-integrated product that allows students to more effectively utilize Al in the classroom, granting them access to basically a private tutor at little cost to school districts.
This podcast came out about a year ago, but it is still incredibly refreshing to hear someone seeking actually measurable change within the US education system who also has a desire to provide more accessible education to the entire world.
For context, Khan Academy is a nonprofit funded almost exclusively from donations, and Sal Khan could easily be worth millions if he were to bring the company public. Despite this fact, he continues to state his intention never to do so even after nearly 20 years of operation.
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