Roughly a year ago, the online learning nonprofit Khan Academy launched Khanmigo—an experimental AI tutor designed to give students one-on-one guidance without doing their homework for them.

Founder of free education platform Khan Academy expressed hope for the future of AI and its ability to revolutionize ...

founder of the free online learning platform Khan Academy. But not all students have family environments that support that, which is why writing success varies so greatly between students.

This, in fact, is one of the salient features of classrooms that deploy the Khan Academy model: students become tutors of fellow students. There are, however, a few pedagogical weaknesses in the ...