If Khan Academy wants to meaningfully contribute to the educational landscape, it must hold itself to more rigorous standards. Glaring shortcomings and pedagogical inefficiencies are baked into every corner of Khan Academy, and despite massive funding and resources, there seems to have been little progress made in addressing them since Khan Academy began over a decade ago¹. Unfortunately, while Khan’s video-lesson approach is exciting to read about, it is far from providing anything near a world-class education. Yet, no company has received as much attention as Khan Academy, who promises a “world-class education, for anyone, anywhere”.

Over the last 10–20 years, there has been an explosion of companies offering video lessons and online learning to students, particularly in the field of math. Khan Academy: A World-Class Education for No One I hope this piece serves not to denigrate the work that has been done, but rather challenge the company to continue improving. While I do not think they have achieved their mission of providing “a free, world class education” yet, they have certainly made many steps in the right direction. Khan Academy’s sheer breadth of topics, problem generation, data-tracking, and much more is highly commendable. Khan Academy - A World-Class Education for No Oneĭisclaimer: While this piece is going to be quite critical of Khan Academy, there are also many things that Khan Academy does quite well.

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