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by newswasboring 724 days ago
> What percentage of kids who would be very likely to use Khan Academy are struggling with math?

A lot. A lot, lot. There are entire states full of people in India who don't have access to good teaching. Who travel absurd distances and stay away from their family for years to get access to good education. In the last few years as kids in my extended family grew up, I am amazed by how much they just learn from YouTube. One of the biggest educational startups started from a free education YT channel.

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Interesting - from my time in India most kids don’t even have reliable access to internet and electricity and are very unlikely to be using khan academy to begin with
India has more Internet users than most continents have total population.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_India

So? Doesn’t contradict what I said and even supports it if you read it…
When was your time in India?
Nine months ago (BLR)