Idaho To Launch Khan Academy Integration Push

Education Week (3/13, Ash) reports that during the next school year, some 10,000 students in Idaho "will log into newly created Khan Academy accounts...as part of an initiative that aims to infuse technology into instruction and supplement teachers' curricula. In the first such statewide effort in the country to integrate content from the online Khan Academy into school curricula, the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation, a private philanthropy in Boise, Idaho, will hand out nearly $1.5 million in grants to 47 schools for technology, professional development, and research to determine the impact of Khan Academy resources on teaching and learning." The piece notes that the Khan Academy is a nonprofit with "a library of more than 4,000 videos on a variety of academic subjects."