He also began taking classes in Japanese at the Japan Society and seeing a math tutor, with whom he worked on writing software for winning at blackjack and poker.
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.
Youngsters spend 15 minutes each week with a tutor, reviewing the past week's progress and agreeing on goals and a timetable for the next one.
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.
This year we have learned from our pilot, and have expanded the Academy to two sections of 35 each, with a tutor for each section (Suzanne Tosolini returns, and we are adding Serfi Altun, the founder of Idea Bakery, as a second tutor).
It is inexpensive (or dirt cheap when compared with a math tutor).
With a personal tutor, she practiced several hours a week to prepare for her performance and she planned the event over three years.
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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Her character, the lonely mother Natalia, falls in love with Beliaev, the tutor hired for the summer.
Mr Wilson, who runs a tutor company, has teamed up with Bic to produce an online revision guide.
Slader, along with Coursera, Tutor, Flatworld Knowledge, is one of several education start-ups experimenting on the for-profit side.
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Can a student of a 100, 000-person class easily and readily connect with a professor, tutor or classmate when a question arises during a lecture?
Point well made, and with humor as the tutor.
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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.
Chetham's officials said Mr Li, a part-time tutor, has been suspended and encouraged anyone with information to contact police.
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My parents had worked hard to seize opportunities in their lives, saving enough money to provide me with extracurricular opportunities and eventually hire me a tutor.
In that play, Linklater played a budding playwright frightened to share his work with his crass, pugnacious novelist-turned-tutor, played by Rickman.
An inquest heard Mr Fuller had agreed to split up with his wife, Ruth, after she developed a "crush" on her tutor.
U.S. personnel help tutor English in a local community center and support charities including orphanages and a school for children with disabilities.
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