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This Tutor Used a Blend of Teaching Styles to Reach Kids Worldwide

Even brilliant kids need the right lessons -- and teaching methods. That's what fuels this tutoring franchise.
Source: Photographs by Bobby Fisher

Sidharth Oberoi was a dream tutor -- a 17-year-old entering his junior year at the University of Utah and teaching math on the side. “We had a good response from parents,” he says, but he didn’t love his employer’s curriculum, and there was no way to track what students were learning. Then a competitor, a local tutoring company called Zane Prep,

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