Bill Gates
Bill Gates is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In 1975, Bill Gates founded Microsoft with Paul Allen, and led the company to become the worldwide leader in business and personal software and services.
In 2008, Bill transitioned to focus full-time on his foundation’s work to expand opportunity to the world’s most disadvantaged people. Along with co-chair Melinda Gates, he leads the foundation’s development of strategies and sets the overall direction of the organization. In 2010, Bill, Melinda, and Warren Buffett founded the Giving Pledge, an effort to encourage the wealthiest families and individuals to publicly commit more than half of their wealth to philanthropic causes and charitable organizations during their lifetime or in their will.
Khan Academy
The founder of nonprofit Khan Academy, one of the most popular online learning sites to stay at home kids and parents.
Khan Academy is running webinars for teachers and parents with tips on how best to use the site’s lessons for home instruction.
Designed daily homeschooling schedules that are a blend of online learning, offline reading, personal writing.
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Sal Khan
Sal Khan is the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, a nonprofit with the mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. He is also the founder of Khan Lab School, a nonprofit laboratory school in Mountain View, California, where Sal teaches seminars in the humanities and sciences.
Sal’s interest in education began while he was an undergraduate at MIT. He developed math software for children with ADHD and tutored fourth- and seventh-grade public school students in Boston. Sal also taught test prep courses for the MCAT and was named teacher of the year by a national test prep company. He holds three degrees from MIT and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Sal founded Khan Academy as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Khan Academy offers free lessons in math, history, grammar, physics, biology, and many more subjects. High school students use Official SAT® Practice on Khan Academy to prepare for the SAT for free. Teachers use Khan Academy to make assignments, track student progress, identify gaps in learning, and provide tailored instruction. Today more than 61 million registered users access Khan Academy in dozens of languages in more than 190 countries.
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