Native name সালমান খান Other names Sal Name Salman Khan Height 1.75 m | Nationality American Ethnicity Bengali Role Teacher Spouse Umaima Marvi (m. 2004) | |
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Full Name Salman Amin Khan Books The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined Similar People Bill Gates, Sugata Mitra, Daphne Koller | ||
Sal khan with a severe cold on future talk
Salman Amin "Sal" Khan (born October 11, 1976) is an Indian Bangladeshi-American educator who founded the Khan Academy, a free online education platform and an organization with which he has produced over 6,500 video lessons teaching a wide spectrum of academic subjects, mainly focusing on mathematics and sciences. He is also the Founder of Khan Lab School, a brick-and-mortar school associated with Khan Academy.
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- Sal khan with a severe cold on future talk
- Lets teach for mastery not test scores Sal Khan
- Early life and education
- Career
- Khan Academy
- Recognition
- Personal life
- References
As of December 2016, the Khan Academy channel on YouTube has more than 2.9 million subscribers and the Khan Academy videos have been viewed more than 1 billion times. In 2012, Time named Salman Khan in its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Forbes magazine featured Khan on its cover with the story "$1 Trillion Opportunity".
Let's teach for mastery -- not test scores | Sal Khan
Early life and education
Salman Khan was born to Muslim parents in Metairie, Louisiana. His father, Dr. Fakhrul Amin Khan, is from Barisal, Bangladesh and his mother, Masuda Khan, is from Murshidabad, West Bengal, India.
Khan attended the public school Grace King High School in Metairie, Louisiana, where, as he recalls, "a few classmates were fresh out of jail and others were bound for top universities."
Khan attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating with Bachelor of Science degrees in mathematics, electrical engineering and computer science in 1998, later getting his Master of Science in electrical engineering and computer science. Khan was class president in his senior year.
Khan also holds a Master in Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
Career
In 2002, Khan was a summer intern at PARC. From 2003 to late 2009, Khan worked as a hedge fund analyst at Connective Capital Management.
Khan Academy
In late 2003, Khan began tutoring his cousin, Nadia, in mathematics over the internet using Yahoo!'s Doodle notepad. When other relatives and friends sought his tutoring, he moved his tutorials to YouTube where he created an account on November 16, 2006.
The popularity of his educational videos on the video-sharing website prompted Khan to quit his job as a financial analyst in late 2009. He moved his focus to developing his YouTube channel, Khan Academy, full-time with the aid of close friend Josh Gefner. Khan consequently received sponsorship from Ann Doerr, the wife of John Doerr.
His videos received worldwide interest from both students and non-students, with more than 458 million views in the first number of years.
Khan outlined his mission as to "accelerate learning for students of all ages. With this in mind, we want to share our content with whoever may find it useful." Khan plans to extend the "free school" to cover topics such as English. Khan's videos are also used to educate rural areas of Africa and Asia.
Khan published a book about Khan Academy and education goals titled The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined.
Khan Academy, initially a tool for students, added the Coach feature in 2012, promoting the connection of teachers with students through videos and monitor tools.
Recognition
Personal life
Khan is married to Pakistani-American physician Umaima Marvi. The couple live with their children in Mountain View, California.