San Jose, California: Jesse Roe, a ninth-grade math teacher at a charter school here called Summit, has a peephole into the brains of each of his 38 students. He can see that a girl sitting against ...

Over the past decade, the free instructional website Khan Academy has transformed how tens of millions of students across the globe perceive and approach math. Now, it’s pursuing a bigger aim: ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the number of registered users of the Khan Academy. It is 137 million users. A bevy of technology and software tools are taking center ...