Student teachers score higher on tests than pupils who're learning only for their own sake.

Student tutors feel upset when their teachable agents fail, but happy when these virtual pupils succeed as they derive pride and satisfaction from someone else's accomplishment.

In schools, teachers and pupils alike often assume that if a concept has been easy to learn, then the lesson has been successful.

But numerous studies have now found that when classroom material is made harder to absorb, pupils retain more of it over the long term, and understand it on a deeper level

With the teacher's help, these pupils were able to find the answers to their set of problems.

I was lucky enough to have my tuition covered by a lottery-funded scholarship called HOPE Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally.

Indeed, our schools and universities are structured to mould pupils to be mostly obedient servants of rationality, and to develop outdated skills in interacting with outdated machines.

Just having a strong teacher for one elementary year left pupils a bit less likely to become mothers as teenagers, a bit more likely to go to college and earning more money at age 28.

Meanwhile, pupils arrive at school hungry because their families can't afford breakfast.

some schools have shown remarkable determination and ingenuity in ensuring that all their pupils are able to take up opportunities that may be truly life-changing.

Such initiatives close doors for many pupils.

The best seek to alleviate the external pressures on their pupils while equipping them better to understand and handle the world outside一 at once sheltering them and broadening their horizons.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel hill, for instance, admits only that the graduation rate for its first-generation pupils is "much lower" than the percentage of all students who graduate within four years 81 percent.