My long-held aspiration for the organization was that it would act as a tutor for every learner in the world, an endeavor that has always been our true north. This wasn’t simply a matter of scaling personalized support for the sake of it. Long before Khan Academy, decades of research (and intuition) pointed to the idea that kids could learn much more if the pacing adapted to the student and allowed each one to truly ace a subject (that is, mastery learning). This contrasts with the status quo, where a class of thirty students often moves on to the next concept even when a good portion of the
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