Sal Khan
Also known as Salman Amin Khan
American educator (born 1976)
Person · Open Library
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- Handwriting Practice Book for Children : Penmanship and Writing Handbook for Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Grade
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Acting · Metairie, Louisiana, USA
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- What's Next? The Future with Bill Gates — Self - Founder and CEO, Khan Academy2024
- Demain, l'école — Self2018
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Salman Amin Khan (born October 11, 1976) is an American educator and the founder of Khan Academy, a free online non-profit educational platform with which he has produced over 6,500 video lessons teaching a wide spectrum of academic subjects, originally focusing on mathematics and science. He is also the founder of Khan Lab School, a private, in-person school in Mountain View, California.
As of April 2026, the Khan Academy channel on YouTube has 9.31 million subscribers, and its videos have been viewed more than two billion times. In 2012, Khan was named in the annual publication of Time 100. In the same year, he was featured on the cover of Forbes, with the tagline "The $1 Trillion Opportunity."
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