The children's enthusiasm for these one-to-one online lessons, which are run by the Bright Spark Education company, is matched by the tutors themselves.
This would provide extra staff who would give one-to-one tuition or lessons in small groups, aimed specifically at pupils who are lagging behind.
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It too sounds a fine idea, but even top private schools, with lots of money and good teachers, find it tricky to timetable lots of variation within one age-group's lessons.
Another site, Grovo.com, offers one-minute video lessons on recent changes to websites, mobile apps and online tools.
It was only a question of time before one of the three firms tried to apply these emerging-market lessons in the West.
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No-one likes to be losing games of cricket, but we need to stand up, learn the lessons and do better.
The findings do not show how many or how often practical science lessons have been cancelled - only that at least one planned lesson has had to be cancelled because of fears over pupil behaviour or other reasons.
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Joining the service gives consumers access to daily deals like Groupon does, but instead of 40 percent off a one-time deal like parasailing lessons, Aisle50 users get the kinds of deals they would use every day in a strategy aimed at encouraging repeated shopping trips from a new group of customers.
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And why should the red tape and lessons of a hundred-year-old industry be used to regulate one that has barely begun?
Under an overhaul of the national curriculum in England, 14- to 16-year-olds will study two Shakespeare plays, rather than the one currently required, while seven- to 11-year-olds will learn about the playwright in history lessons.
And as software increasingly simplifies administrative tasks and eliminates a significant need for lesson planning and delivering one-size-fits-none lessons, there will be significantly more time for teachers to work in the ways that motivated many of them to enter teaching originally to work one-on-one and in small groups with students on the problems where they are in fact struggling.
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