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Only 31 percent of African-Americans and 14 percent of Hispanics have bachelor’s degrees or higher, compared to 58 percent of Asians and 56 percent of whites.

While 83 percent of Silicon Valley high school students graduate, only 50 percent meet the UC/CSU requirements.

In Silicon Valley, those with lower than a high school degree saw a nearly 20 percent drop in median income, more than twice the drop of the rest of the U.S.

Statistics released this week by Joint Venture Silicon Valley indicate that while economic growth is on the rise in the region, education isn’t faring as well. “We desperately need to improve educational outcome in Silicon Valley, we are failing our youngest students,” Emmett Carson, CEO & president of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, said at Friday’s conference. Indeed, some say the rise of online education couldn’t have come at a better time.

“When you’re trying to get your mind around something it’s very stressful when a live human being is like, ‘hey, have you gotten it yet?’” Khan said.

He also noted that the current system forces students who may not have fully absorbed material to move on to the next level, setting up learning gaps that derail their entire academic track.Īnother benefit of online learning is eliminating the discomfort that can come from one-on-one tutoring. “The real problem was the process, the process was absurd,” he said.Ĭomplete “State of the Valley” 2014 coverage from the Peninsula Press: Silicon Gap: Widening Inequality in the Valley Khan said the real innovation behind his work was tackling the education process. “We group students together by age and we move them together,” Khan said. It’s a model that differs greatly from today’s traditional school system. As students master basic elements of a given topic, they move on to a more advanced concept.

Khan noted that the online learning platform allows students to learn at a pace that is most beneficial for them. The nonprofit’s mission is to provide a free, high-quality education for “anyone, anywhere” and features more than 100,000 practice exercises and 6,000 instructional videos on a variety of topics including math, science and the humanities.

The educational website Khan Academy is a free online education platform that aims to bridge the learning gap by providing tools for a multitude of users. “Khan Academy is a tool, like any tool it’s there to empower the users of the tool,” Khan said at Friday’s State of the Valley conference, where he received the organization’s David Packard Award for Civic Entrepreneurship. Khan Academy founder Salman Khan hopes that online technology will play a critical role in closing the education gap in Silicon Valley and beyond.