Sometimes she virtually drags them into the classroom where they face books and blackboards for the first time - and experience the discipline of lessons.

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The daughter of the prolific film maker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Samira Makhmalbaf won the 2000 Cannes Jury Prize for her following film Blackboards, about the trials of two travelling teachers in Kurdistan.

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Mrs May launched the Tory education proposals in front of three blackboards designed to hammer home the key messages.

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Hebrew lessons typically start several years, not several months, before your 13th birthday, and since I had no facility for language in the first place, it was only a couple of weeks before my teachers deemed me hopeless and, instead of teaching me Hebrew, had me performing maintenance chores, such as cleaning the school's blackboards.

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The next day she brought blackboards, chalk and other teaching tools and improvise her own little train platform school.

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It also cemented the association of Internet Explorer with 56K modems that sounded like scratching blackboards with cats.

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The spacious room has loft-like pretensions, with racks of local produce on display and narrow vertical blackboards with lists of appetizing products in beautifully written script.

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The Open High School of Utah (OHSU) is a fully online charter school that has traded chalk and blackboards for digital tools that foster collaboration and interactive education.

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