Five students in business casual and the two authors in board shorts were crammed into a small classroom in Southern Bangalore.
It started as a small cooperative with a community classroom.
Nearly three-quarters stated that the program gave them skills to succeed in the classroom, no small benefit given that 25% of American public high school students drop out before graduation.
They can hear individual children read or even supervise a small group of pupils within the classroom.
We unlock the door to the school gym - a small hall that doubles as a classroom - and Jehue's face bursts into an open grin.
A. student at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business, says she would have liked more than just a few days to adjust, as she struggled to join in classroom exchanges and conduct small talk with recruiters.
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"A key way to do that will be to have more one-to-one and small group tuition for pupils who would benefit alongside excellent, everyday classroom teaching, " she said.
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We called them Bermanites, after their intellectual and sartorial model, an English teacher named Robert Berman: a small, thin, unsmiling man who papered over the windows of his classroom door so that no one could peek through.
These former classroom teachers had spent the past several years coordinating teacher workshops, working with small groups of students or mentoring young teachers.
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These students become a valuable addition to the classroom, where their insight and real-world experiences can help elevate discussions, especially in the small, seminar-style classes we offer at Lang.
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But the component parts -- cutting taxes for middle-class families, cutting taxes for small businesses that are hiring our veterans and hiring the long-term unemployed, putting teachers back in the classroom -- here in the state of Hawaii, you have a bunch of kids who are going to school four days a week because of budget problems.
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