The tutors are part of a growing army of teachers being recruited across the Asian giant to dispense their knowledge online to US kids.
At TutorVista, a Bangalore-based company that launched US services last November, customers pay 100 dollars a month for unlimited hours of e-tutoring on a variety of subjects, ranging from physics to history.
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The price represents a fraction of the 40 to 100 dollars an hour parents typically have to pay for face-to-face tutoring sessions or the average 40 dollars charged by US-based online tutors.
"We see TutorVista as a business to make education affordable to the masses," Krishnan Ganesh, the company's founder and chairman, told AFP in a telephone interview.
"It's a big anomaly that the United States produces the maximum number of Nobel laureates (...
) and yet the education system is in crisis at the school level.
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Ganesh said that 1,900 Americans, the youngest being six years old, have so far enrolled in TutorVista, with most seeking help for math a