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What Is the Website Offering Free K-12 Education?

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limitgov Posted: Wed, Oct 5 2011 12:09 PM

It was a website offering free education...all online, tons of videos that show you every subject for K-12.  It was started by a big ceo or something.  What was the name of the website?

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I think you mean Khan Academy

http://www.khanacademy.org/

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yes...that's it.  thank you.

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limitgov:
yes...that's it.  thank you.

Okay then you're seriously confused.  It's not "K-12 education", and Khan is not some CEO...

 

 

 

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I don't see how his description is very inaccurate.

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"Free K-12 education" makes it sound like education equivelant to kindergarten thru 12th grade for free.  This is not the case with Khan Academy.  For one thing the videos offered do not cover all areas one would cover in K-12, and the only instruction available at an elementary level is basic math.

And Khan is not "some big CEO", and never has been.  He was overeducated hedge fund analyst who started making videos in his closet because his cousin needed help with math.  If you want to get technical and argue that he said "or something", I suppose that means the creator could have been a hobo too...but generally when someone says that it is implied to mean "or something like that."

 

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Wheylous replied on Wed, Oct 5 2011 10:23 PM

Oh, ok.

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"Okay then you're seriously confused.  It's not "K-12 education", and Khan is not some CEO..."

you're right.  I just remember there being more videos and topics then any other free website I've ever seen.  I thought it was backed or funded in part by some CEO, like Bill Gates or something?  I guess I remembered wrong.  Either way, I'm glad I found it again. 

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You may actually remember Bill Gates because he actually did praise Khan on more than one occasion, and his foundation did donate $1.5 million to Khan's non-profit.

 

 

(Kind of funny, the video looks like it is from 1990, but look at the year behind him.)

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