However, according to tutoring website, Math and Reading Help, there may be drawbacks to online tutoring.

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Salman Khan, a graduate of MIT and the Harvard Business School and obviously brilliant, started tutoring his Louisiana cousins in math via the internet.

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After years of tutoring and remedial classes, she dropped English, math and French and has found her passion, and self-esteem, in art and design.

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Math and Reading Help also points out that learning style differences may make online tutoring a challenge for certain students.

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