He got the idea from the kids he was teaching at an after-school music class in one of the tougher neighborhoods of north Philadelphia.

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Growing up in London's working-class East End, the son of a teaching-assistant mother and truck-driver father, Mr. Marsan says he knew he wanted to become an actor from an early age.

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On a recent morning, Mr. Leon was teaching his 12th-graders a class about gender roles in the media and society.

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Voters also will decide the fate of Prop. 227, a measure aimed at teaching students almost exclusively in English after a one-year transition class.

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The use of familiar, real-life materials helps students to feel more comfortable in class, and the structured teaching of literacy skills gradually improves their reading and writing skills.

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Ofsted has been campaigning for schools to make more use of whole-class teaching, whose neglect it regards as one of the reasons for under-achievement in other subjects.

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In this space last week, we reported that a sixth-grade class dubbed the Khalil Gibran International Academy (KGIA), is supposed to begin teaching students in September inside a New York public school.

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