As educators struggle to motivate more students to take up technology-related majors, breakout online education startup, Khan Academy, has a novel approach. “Computer Science is an intensely creative ...

Oh, nerds, what a glorious day this is. Khan Academy, one of our favorite free sources of educational tools and instructional videos, is finally kicking off its computer science program. “This project ...

Since 2006 the Khan Academy, named for its founder Salman Khan, has provided free video lectures on subjects such as mathematics, biology and history. As we've reported before Khan garnered praise ...

The headquarters of what has rapidly become the largest school in the world, at 10 million students strong, is stuffed into a few large communal rooms in a decaying 1960s office building hard by the ...

On Wednesday, free online tutorial service Khan Academy will launch a new series of instructional videos covering the field of computer science. “This project is going to blow the doors off Computer ...

"This," says Matthew Carpenter, "is my favorite exercise." I peer over his shoulder at his laptop screen to see the math problem the fifth grader is pondering. It's an inverse trigonometric function: ...