Khan Academy started out as a way for an eccentric former engineer to tutor his cousin remotely.
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Some of the writers who came to tutor the courses were nice, but not all of them were.
"It's such a great thing to give back, " said Munyai, who makes time to tutor at least twice a week.
The new examination is designed to counter the efforts of parents to tutor children to gain a place at one of the county's 13 grammar schools.
In his junior year there he pestered the deans into assigning him a former Oxford don to tutor him three hours a week in the history of ancient Greece.
Figuring the brain's capability could be applied to a kid on the autism spectrum, O'Dell began to tutor Jacob ten hours a day at their home in Rabun Gap, Ga.
Clinton was so upset by the Democratic nominee's failure to punch back that he flew from Little Rock to Boston to tutor Dukakis staff members on the wisdom and methods of rapid response.
Back in January, my friend Bror Saxberg, chief learning officer of Kaplan, published an eye-popping blog about a meta-analysis that Kurt VanLehn published recently about nearly 100 well-constructed papers about computers used to tutor learners.
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One of the texts to her tutor had referred to a mid-life crisis, prompting him to remind her of the boundaries between a student and tutor.
Academics from Cambridge University are to help tutor sixth-form physics students across the UK to prepare them better for university study.
Some will continue to play this role, but the majority will not, as there should be a flourishing of roles for teachers, from mentors to content experts that help tutor to those that focus on non-academic problems.
Earlier that day Mrs Fuller had sent texts of a loving nature to her husband, but also "flirty" texts to her tutor on a humanities course, the inquest heard.
Schools also have to send parents regular reports, and parents are theoretically given the chance to transfer their child to a better school, or get money to hire a tutor, if their school fails to improve within the first two-to-three years.
Internet-based video lessons are great to help the schoolteacher, the home schooler, or the tutor to teach with more effectiveness, but it takes a relationship with a real teacher to educate deeply.
Taazyeh is transmitted by example and word of mouth from tutor to pupil.
He later launched the Pacific Point Canine Academy where one of his clients paid for a tutor to teach him English.
Trump has been an exacting tutor to his offspring, whether the subject is how concrete is mixed or how the celebrated surname is marketed.
Two practice and feedback sessions allow the tutor to go over or catch up on skills that students may not have grasped fully.
So find a new best friend who is a computer geek to be your tech tutor, or sign up for a course.
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When they showed up at the library to work with a tutor, it was always the same story: either they didn't have any homework or they forgot it.
She chose to enroll in the local school and is trying again for first grade, signing up for the TestingMom.com site, enrolling in a popular prep school in Flushing on weekends and hoping to use a private tutor toward the end.
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The tool helps teach nonliterate children and adults how to read by creating an individual reading tutor for every child, coupled with an accountability system to measure learning, and assistance for teachers to incorporate more effective literacy into the classroom.
Which isn't to say that hiring a tutor such as Mr. Kahn won't help your odds.
The mesh is bringing together wider access to experts via channels including tutor.com, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
His growing reputation led to the invitation to teach at the Royal College of Art in 1971 and to his appointment as Senior Tutor of Painting in 1981, at which point he retired from the Courtauld Institute.
And as they improve, the machine-based tutoring technologies will become good enough for those who could or would have paid full price or changed up their schedule to connect with a human tutor, such that machine-based tutoring may well be the norm for many of us as a prime mode of learning in the future.
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Rivera plans to be around the team as much as possible, and will tutor the next closer as he tries to adapt to the job.
An inquiry began when a tutor noticed identical answers to a take-home exam for an undergraduate politics course.
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