Carlos Slim's Foundation Puts Its Weight Behind Nonprofit Educational Website Khan Academy Kerry A. Dolan - Forbes
go to original January 15, 2013

Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script - give students video lectures to watch at home, and do "homework" in the classroom with the teacher available to help. (TEDtalksDirector)

The world’s richest man, Carlos Slim Helu of Mexico, is now publicly supporting Salman Khan and his nonprofit educational website, Khan Academy, according to Twitter messages from Slim’s son-in-law, Arturo Elias.

Elias met with Salman Khan and posted a photo of the two of them on Twitter mid-afternoon Eastern time on Monday. He also tweeted (in Spanish) that the Carlos Slim Foundation will bring Khan Academy to Mexico and Latin America in Spanish. Earlier Monday Elias tweeted that he would be making a big announcement about the Slim Foundation and education in Mexico and Latin America.

Salman Khan and his Khan Academy was featured on the cover of Forbes in November 2012 in a compelling article written by my colleague Michael Noer. Khan, 36, started Khan Academy in a closet at his home in Silicon Valley, but with backing from the likes of Bill Gates and venture capitalist John Doerr and his wife Ann, has expanded into a 36-person company serving 10 million students around the world with free video talks on the Internet explaining everything from calculus to chemistry.

FORBES was unable to obtain details about the scope of the Slim Foundation’s support for the Khan Academy.

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