Google has announced a new partnership with nonprofit education organisation Khan Academy to introduce AI-powered learning tools built on Google’s Gemini models, aimed at supporting teachers and improving student literacy outcomes.

The announcement was made at this year’s British Educational Training and Technology (Bett) conference, where the organisations revealed that the new tools are designed to align closely with learning science and classroom realities, developed in collaboration with educators and education experts.

The partnership focuses on addressing a growing challenge for schools: supporting middle and high school students who are falling behind academically, particularly in reading and language arts.

Khan Academy founder and CEO Sal Khan said school district leaders are seeking ways to help struggling learners while allowing teachers to focus more time on direct student support.

The first tool to be introduced under the partnership is Khan Academy’s Writing Coach, which integrates Gemini’s most capable AI models to help students build writing and literacy skills. Rather than generating completed responses, Writing Coach guides students through outlining, drafting and refining their own work.

Writing Coach allows teachers to select either a fully interactive experience or a “feedback-only” mode, giving educators greater control over how AI is used in the classroom. The tool supports persuasive, expository and literary analysis essays and adapts its feedback to individual student needs, offering examples and prompts to help students overcome writing challenges.

The tool is currently available for grades 7–12 in the United States, with a beta version for grades 5–6, and forms part of a broader suite of AI-enabled reading and writing tools planned under the Google–Khan Academy collaboration.