Lacking Teachers and Textbooks, India’s Schools Turn to Khan Academy to Survive

A few Indian schools are already using Khan Academy, which offers lessons on numerous subjects through online videos, to cement math and science fundamentals, cut student absenteeism, boost test scores and in some cases, to simply survive. But these one-time school initiatives could gain traction from an effort to dub 450 of the 3,400 English-language Khan Academy videos in at least three Indian languages, as well as other efforts to make them more accessible to Indian students.

In addition, Khan Academy is in early talks with India’s Ministry of Human Resource Development to match schools’ syllabi with the relevant Web tutorials.

Do you think it’s possible to standardize certain syllabi at the grade school level globally? Are the maths and sciences a ‘safer space’ when it comes to being wary of cross cultural education? Hit “reply” to continue the conversation.

Also, Salman Khan, the founder of the academy, will be at LIVE on November 2 with Carlos Slim to discuss global education. More information here…