Salman Khan (Sal) founded the Khan Academy with the hope of using technology to foster new learning models. He is currently the portfolio manager of a fund based in Menlo Park, CA. Prior to this, Sal was one of the initial employees at MVC Venture Capital. He has also worked as a Technical Architect at Scient Corporation and as a Senior Product Manager at Oracle Corporation.
Sal received his MBA from Harvard Business School where he was president of the student body. He also holds a Masters in electrical engineering and computer science, a BS in electrical engineering and computer science, and a BS in mathematics from MIT where he was president of the the Class of 1998. While at MIT, Sal was the recipient of the Eloranta Fellowship which he used to develop web-based math software for children with ADHD. He was also an MCAT instructor for the Princeton Review and volunteered teaching gifted 4th and 7th graders at the Devotion School in Brookline, MA.
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
New Link Added- Khan Academy
We are adding Khan Academy, the free education website run by Salman Khan. You can learn math and statistics and much more because Salman is a great teacher who explains things very well. If you or your children need help in a subject or you just want to learn: this is one of the greatest sites on the web . Check it out . It will be a permanent link at Newsalert on the left hand side in the utility section. Salman Khan is a portfolio manager who understands math and has the amazing gift of being able to explain numbers. I'll bet your math teachers didn't have this background: