Khan Academy is supporting more than 100 public school

Across the Districts, Nearly 70% of Students Qualify for Free and Reduced-Price Lunch

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,  Khan Academy is helping greater than one hundred public faculty districts throughout the u . s . as the nonprofit instructional employer responds to the exceptional needs of the pandemic. Khan Academy will serve almost 1/2 a million college students in associate districts this college yr thru two special offerings: Khan Academy Districts and MAP Accelerator, in partnership with NWEA.

 

"No one ought to have imagined the state of affairs we discover ourselves in with COVID-19," stated Catherine Wang, Khan Academy's vice president of advertising and strategic partnerships. "In this difficult time, we're satisfied to be working with district companions in giant cities and small cities throughout 38 states."

Khan Academy Districts, one of two choices for college districts delivered remaining year, affords tools, expert improvement and records insights to assist teachers, district directors and principals screen scholar use of Khan Academy districtwide. Many faculty districts that serve college students who are traditionally under-resourced have enrolled in Khan Academy Districts, along with Detroit Public Schools Community District, Trenton Public Schools, Omaha Public Schools and the Roswell Independent School District.

Khan Academy's 2d presenting is MAP Accelerator, a customized getting to know device developed in partnership with NWEA. MAP Accelerator reduces the guide work of differentiating math guidance for teachers. The presenting helps instructors generate a personalised getting to know diagram for every pupil primarily based on their MAP Growth results, and additionally gives statistics insights to district directors and college leaders. MAP Accelerator districts encompass Glendale Unified School District, Pajaro Valley Unified School District, Madera Unified School District and Clark County Public Schools.

"The data we are gathering as we enter the 2nd 12 months of partnership with Khan Academy and NWEA has been a treasured device for our instructors and directors specially throughout distance education," stated Dr. Jesus Jara, superintendent of the Clark County School District, the fifth-largest faculty district in the country. "MAP Accelerator helps us help personalised getting to know and differentiated guidance for all our students."

MAP Accelerator and Khan Academy Districts launched in fall 2019 with 9 faculty district partners.

"Pajaro Valley Unified School District and Khan Academy have a comparable mission — we desire college students to be profitable in their academic experience to make sure they are geared up for college, profession and life. MAP Accelerator is a effective device that improves teachers' potential to customize scholar getting to know in mathematics," stated Michelle Rodriguez, superintendent of the Pajaro Valley Unified School District in Watsonville, California. "In addition to empowering teachers, the machine empowers college students to enhance their tutorial overall performance as they work at their personal stage and pace, tune their very own progress, and use skill-building equipment to speed up their very own learning. PVUSD's use of MAP Accelerator is absolutely aligned with our dedication to center of attention on the complete baby and our imaginative and prescient to assist every scholar to excel thru personalised instruction."

Prior to the launch of the two offerings, Long Beach Unified pronounced college students who used Khan Academy received twice the district common on the country math assessment. Findings held actual regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, household profits or English language learner status.

"The efficacy find out about in Long Beach Unified helped grant an impetus to launch our district offerings," stated Sal Khan, founder and CEO of Khan Academy. "Since then, the pandemic and protests over systemic racism have put into sharp center of attention the challenges going through tens of millions of college students throughout the country. Many of our district companions serve college students who are traditionally under-resourced and we're dedicated to helping their efforts."

Across the colleges and districts the usage of the two offerings:

67% of college students qualify for free and reduced-price lunch (the country wide common is 49%)
19% of college students are Black (the countrywide common is 15%)
45% of college students are Latino/Hispanic (the countrywide common is 27%)