I started tutoring her younger brothers, word spreads in my family that free tutoring is going on. And that same Nadia, who was put into a remedial math track, was then put into an advanced math track. But once we got past that, she got unit conversion. I started remote tutoring her, and it was unit conversion that she was having trouble with and, you know, first had to overcome her lack of confidence. And so I was convinced that I- I might be able to help her. And it just came out of conversation that my 12 year old cousin Nadia was having trouble with math. I had just gotten married and my family from New Orleans was visiting for the wedding. In 2004, I was a year out of business school. But I've always had this interest in education. And then after business school, as you mentioned, I ended up working in finance. The- you know, my original background out of undergrad was in technology and software. KHAN: Two sentences, that' s pretty good. MARGARET BRENNAN: In two sentences, your life. "Facing Forward": Khan Academy's Sal Khan transcript And I'm feeling optimistic that in the next three to five years, this- we- we won't completely solve this, but it will be mitigated to a large degree."Äownload, rate and subscribe here: Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher
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